Many may have heard this news already, as it happened last Wednesday.
CBC
A Coquitlam, B.C., woman needed surgery to repair damage to her head, torso and arms after she was mauled by a bear in her yard Wednesday morning.
The woman, who has not been identified, was in her garden in the Westwood Plateau area when an aggressive bear entered her yard around 9:30 a.m., her neighbours told CBC News.
Police said the woman fell to the pavement of her driveway as the bear attacked. She suffered bite wounds to her arms, legs and torso before neighbours, who heard her screams, drove off the bear by throwing rocks at it.
The woman was taken to hospital, where she's believed to be in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. RCMP later shot the animal in a nearby yard.
"We didn't want to run the risk of having this bear run around the neighbourhood, especially after what had happened," said Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Tony Farahbakhchian.
Officers said the bear was likely hunting the woman as food, and they plan to do a necropsy to try to determine why.
Link to story, and some comments from people about bears, and attacks.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-co...#socialcomments