A 36-year-old woman in Alaska was seriously injured after being attacked by a bear right outside her home.
According to U.S. media reports, the Alaska Department of Public Safety stated that the woman left her home in the coastal city of Kenai at around 5:45 a.m. on the 26th to go jogging, and was then attacked by a bear before ultimately being found by a neighbor.
Alaska wildlife officers said the woman encountered the bear about 50 meters from her home, and the bear dragged her approximately 100 yards (about 91.44 meters) to a neighbor’s house.
The Kenai Police Department received notification of the attack at 6:58 a.m. on the 26th. After arriving at the scene, they transported the woman to the hospital.
Alaska State Troopers and staff from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game searched for the bear together, but ultimately were unable to find it. Authorities determined, based on the bear’s tracks and other evidence, that the culprit was a brown bear.
Bear Attacks on Humans are Relatively Rare
There are hundreds of thousands of black bears and brown bears throughout Alaska, and several thousand polar bears roam the state’s northern regions.
Alaska is known as the 'Land of Bears,' but incidents of bears attacking humans remain relatively rare. Health officials reported that, between 2000 and 2017, there were 10 deaths from bear attacks across Alaska, and 68 people hospitalized with injuries caused by bears.