A 10-year-old boy in Connecticut has been hospitalized after a black bear attacked him in the backyard of his grandfather’s home.
after the attack in Morris, a town of around 2,200 northwest of Waterbury, around 11 a.m., a spokesperson for the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection told NBC Connecticut.
The department did not respond to a request for details about the attack by NBC News on Monday night. A black bear walks along a neighbor's property moments before it allegedly attacked a young boy in Connecticut over the weekend.The boy’s grandfather and a neighbor who ran to help tried to fight off the bear, hitting it with a pipe, according toThe black bear population in Connecticut was almost destroyed or removed by the mid-1800s, according to the environmental protection department.
But they made a rebound. The state had a resident population of the bears by the 1980s, and their numbers continue to grow, the department says on its
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