Grizzly Bear Attacks School Children

[TheInfiniteSadness]

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Pupils flee as grizzly attacks elementary class in B.C., injuring 11, some critically​

Nov. 20th, 2025

A grizzly bear has attacked a group of elementary school students and teachers in the B.C. central coast community of Bella Coola, leaving two people critically injured and two others seriously hurt.

B.C. Emergency Health Services said seven more people were treated at the scene of the attack in the community about 700 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, which was called in just before 2 p.m. on Thursday.

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Officers believe sow with cubs was involved in B.C. bear attack on students, teachers​

Nov. 23rd

Conservation officers in British Columbia say they believe a mother bear with two cubs was likely involved in an attack on a group of elementary school students and their teachers Thursday, and they continue to search for the animal in the area near the community.

"Speaking from experience, this is probably the most dangerous thing that conservation officers do, especially dealing with family units with sows," Sgt. Jeff Tyre with the B.C. Conservation Officer Service told a news conference in Bella Coola on Saturday afternoon.

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The children were in grades 4 and 5, out on a field trip and attacked while eating lunch. The teachers did all they could to protect them and one was said to have been the most seriously injured while doing so.

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

The Sankebetsu brown bear incident also known as the Rokusensawa bear attack or the Tomamae brown bear incident was a series of bear attacks which took place between December 9th and 15th, 1915, at the beginning of the Taishō era, in a remote area of Hokkaido, Japan. Over the course of six days, a male Ezo brown bear attacked a number of households, killing seven people and injuring a further three. The incident has been referred to as "the worst animal attack in Japanese history".

Sankebetsu brown bear incident - Wikipedia

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The Sloth bear of Mysore was an unusually aggressive Indian sloth bear responsible for the deaths of at least 12 people and the mauling of two dozen others in 1957. It was killed by Kenneth Anderson, who described it in his memoirs Man-Eaters and Jungle Killers:

[Sloth] Bears, as a rule, are excitable but generally harmless creatures. This particular bear carried the mark of Cain, in that he had become the wanton and deliberate murderer of several men, whom he had done to death in most terrible fashion, without provocation.

— "The Black Bear of Mysore", from Man-Eaters and Jungle Killers, Kenneth Anderson, Allen & Unwin, 1957

Sloth bear of Mysore - Wikipedia

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[1srelluc]

A field trip in bear country with no armed overwatch?

 

[mudwhistle]

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Pupils flee as grizzly attacks elementary class in B.C., injuring 11, some critically​

Nov. 20th, 2025

A grizzly bear has attacked a group of elementary school students and teachers in the B.C. central coast community of Bella Coola, leaving two people critically injured and two others seriously hurt.

B.C. Emergency Health Services said seven more people were treated at the scene of the attack in the community about 700 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, which was called in just before 2 p.m. on Thursday.

MSN

Officers believe sow with cubs was involved in B.C. bear attack on students, teachers​

Nov. 23rd

Conservation officers in British Columbia say they believe a mother bear with two cubs was likely involved in an attack on a group of elementary school students and their teachers Thursday, and they continue to search for the animal in the area near the community.

"Speaking from experience, this is probably the most dangerous thing that conservation officers do, especially dealing with family units with sows," Sgt. Jeff Tyre with the B.C. Conservation Officer Service told a news conference in Bella Coola on Saturday afternoon.

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The children were in grades 4 and 5, out on a field trip and attacked while eating lunch. The teachers did all they could to protect them and one was said to have been the most seriously injured while doing so.

Good thing that the Canadian government decided that their population shouldn't have guns.
Bears might have been harmed.

 

[1srelluc]

Good thing that the Canadian government decided that their population shouldn't have guns.
Bears might have been harmed.

At the bare minimum there should have been an armed member of their bunny police out there with them.

 

[postman]

Good thing that the Canadian government decided that their population shouldn't have guns.
Bears might have been harmed.

In Canada, firearms are classified into three primary categories: Non-Restricted Firearms: These are generally hunting rifles and shotguns capable of being legally owned without specific restrictions.

 

[postman]

At the bare minimum there should have been an armed member of their bunny police out there with them.

Well you fell for another lie. That Canada restricts guns that could be used against bears.

 

[1srelluc]

Well you fell for another lie. That Canada restricts guns that could be used against bears.

Sure, go ahead and focus on BS while a bunch of school children were mauled by a bear when a simple armed overwatch could have prevented or at least helped mitigate the situation.

What were the adults in charge up there thinking?

I don't know the lawsuit laws up in Canada but the adults involved need to be sued no end for their shortsightedness.

Indeed, even charged criminally for professional maleficence.

 

[Hellokitty]

Good thing that the Canadian government decided that their population shouldn't have guns.
Bears might have been harmed.

Bears lives matter!!!

 

[Anomalism]

Not going to catch me in bear country without my .45.

 

[Hellokitty]

Sure, go ahead and focus on BS while a bunch of school children were mauled by a bear when a simple armed overwatch could have prevented or at least helped mitigate the situation.

What were the adults in charge up there thinking?

I don't know the lawsuit laws up in Canada but the adults involved need to be sued no end for their shortsightedness.

Indeed even charged criminally for professional maleficence.

Um, let's keep in mind these children had parents who allowed their children to go on field trip.

 

[1srelluc]

Um, let's keep in mind these children had parents who allowed their children to go on field trip.

I fail to see what that has to do with not providing armed overwatch.

Then again, it happens.

 

[postman]

Sure, go ahead and focus on BS while a bunch of school children were mauled by a bear when a simple armed overwatch could have prevented or at least helped mitigate the situation.

There were no Canadian restrictions stopping that.

So what's the point?

On average there are roughly 6 reported attacks by bears resulting in injuries each year in Alaska,

 

[postman]

Bears lives matter!!!

Canada doesn't restrict guns that can be used against bears, and other large game.

 

[1srelluc]

There were no Canadian restrictions stopping that.

So what's the point?

On average there are roughly 6 reported attacks by bears resulting in injuries each year in Alaska,

Ask the kid's parents that were mauled that....I'm sure they could give you a point or two.

 

[postman]

Ask the kid's parents that were mauled that....I'm sure they could give you a point or two.

Why blame Canadian gun laws?

They had nothing (repeat nothing) to do with what happened, or how it could have been prevented.

 

[1srelluc]

Why blame Canadian gun laws?

They had nothing (repeat nothing) to do with what happened, or how it could have been prevented.

Because they are retarded.

 

[postman]

Because they are retarded.

But they in no way prevent anybody looking after school children from carrying bear stopping weapons.

 

[postman]

Because they are retarded.

Maybe you should walk around bear country, protected by your .22 bolt action rifle.

 

[1srelluc]

Maybe you should walk around bear country, protected by your .22 bolt action rifle.

Nah....C1 minimum.

Oh, but that's right, you can't have the semi-auto version of your own former service rifle now.

Well, I think you might still be able to have one, just not shoot it.