UPDATE: Troopers reported that the 9-year-old boy who suffered the attack is in fair condition. A necropsy on the dead bear revealed that it was not the bear involved in raids of chicken coops near Butte last week.
PALMER, Alaska - Alaska State Troopers responded to a reported bear attack Tuesday that left two people hospitalized.— an adult male and a 9-year-old boy — near mile 36 of the Glenn Highway, at the end of Matanuska Townsite Road. The boy had serious injuries and the man had minor injuries and both were taken to an area hospital for medical treatment.
Troopers spokesperson Austin McDaniel confirmed that the man and juvenile male came across a brown bear sow and her cub while hunting in the Palmer Hay Flats area. The man accompanying the child was armed and shot and killed the sow bear during the attack. “We will come in with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game with the biologist and we’ll do the full investigation, necropsy and find out what’s going on with this bear,” Lanier said.bear who killed dozens of chickens and turkeys
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