Search teams in Canada have discovered the body of a 20-year-old woman and confirmed that she and her mother were killed in an attack that conservation officers now believe could have involved more than one grizzly bear, according to The Guardian.
Conservation officers in British Columbia said late on Tuesday that the two women, who were reported missing over the weekend, were located near a trail a short distance from their home. The suspected attack happened in the Snooka West trail area, about 8km (5 miles) east of Bella Coola on the province's central coast.
Jenny Balcarras, an art therapist, and her daughter Selah Reed were reported missing by relatives. Balcarras's remains were found first and Reed was located a day later. Inspector Jeff Tyre of the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service said the service was investigating the possibility that more than one bear was involved, and asked the public to stay out of the area.
Samuel Schooner, elected chief of the Nuxalk Nation, said a trapping effort to find the bear was under way and asked media to refrain from contacting community members. Grizzly attacks in the province are exceedingly rare, but last November, 11 people, some as young as nine, were injured when a grizzly attacked a school group near 4 Mile.