A hunter has been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries sustained in a bear attack near Cranbrook.
BC Conservation Officers (CO) jumped into action on Saturday, June 8 to investigate the reported attack near the Baker Mountain South Forest Service Road.
CO officials said three men were hunting when one of them shot at a black bear.
One man went to retrieve the bear, but it was still alive and it attacked him before a second man was able to shoot the animal.
COs were unsure if the bear survived, so they began searching and found a dead black bear with a recent gunshot wound.
“Officers are confident it was the bear involved in the attack after a thorough investigation of the attack site, as well as interviewing the victim and the other hunters,” said CO officials.
COs are investigating the legality of this hunt.
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