A girl has suffered “severe accidents” in Alaska when a bear attacked her close to her driveway whereas she was out on her early morning jog, officers stated.
The incident occurred early Tuesday morning when the Kenai Police Division in Alaska acquired a name at 6:58 a.m. informing them that there had been a bear assault close to the intersection of Chinook Drive in Kenai, the Alaska Division of Public Security stated of their assertion on Tuesday.
“[An] investigation revealed a 36-year-old feminine departed her residence at 5:45 a.m. to go jogging and was close to her driveway when the preliminary assault occurred,” police stated.
A neighbor ultimately got here exterior and positioned the unnamed sufferer earlier than alerting authorities to the incident.
The jogger was taken by helicopter to an Anchorage space hospital the place she was handled for “severe accidents,” in keeping with the Alaska Division of Public Security, although no particulars got about what accidents she sustained or what situation she was in following her preliminary medical analysis and remedy.
“Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Kenai Police Division, and Alaska Division of Fish and Sport personnel searched the world on foot and with a drone on the lookout for the bear,” officers stated. “The bear has not been positioned. Patrols of the world will proceed, and the general public is suggested to stay vigilant whereas open air.”
The Kenai Nationwide Wildlife Refuge close by incorporates virtually 2 million acres of land together with an estimated 2,183 totally different animal species dwelling there, in keeping with the Kenai Nationwide Wildlife Refuge.
The investigation into the assault is presently ongoing.
