A 10-year-old boy was playing in his grandparents' backyard in Connecticut over the weekend when he was attacked by a black bear.
The child suffered from non-life-threatening injuries, and the 250-pound creature has since been euthanized.how the 10-year-year old had been playing on a trampoline in the backyard of his grandparents’ house in Morris, Conn., on Sunday when the incident occurred.
“I heard him yell ‘bear,’ and when I looked up, I saw his leg in the bear’s mouth and the bear trying to drag him across the lawn,” later described the boy’s grandfather, James Butler, of the attack. Butler—who uses a wheelchair—proceeded to roll himself towards the bear, throwing a metal bar at it. The large animal at first released the boy but then grabbed him again, trying to roll him on his back with its claws.
A neighbor who had heard the commotion ran onto the scene brandishing a pipe and managed to successfully scare the bear off. The boy was taken to the hospital and treated for a puncture wound to a thigh plus bite and claw marks.
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