Grizzly bear pulls California girl out of tent in Montana, kills her

A grizzly bear pulled a female from her tent in the middle of the night Tuesday in Montana and killed her, in accordance to wildlife officials. 

The target, Leah Davis Lokan, 65, of Chico, California, was on a extensive-length bicycling trip when she was attacked in the western Montana local community of Ovando, about 60 miles northwest of Helena. She was killed around 3:30 a.m. before fellow campers in an adjacent tent had been able to use bear spray to ward off the estimated 400-pound animal.

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (FWP) officials explained the bear experienced beforehand stumbled across the website all around 3 a.m., where by Lokan and a couple have been camping in close proximity to a submit business. The bear ran away right after waking the a few campers, who eliminated food stuff from their tents, secured it, and went back to bed.

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About 15 minutes later, the bear was captured in surveillance footage at a business enterprise much less than a block away from the submit business. Officers added that the bear received into a rooster coop at some position in the course of the night time and ate numerous chickens. 

The bear has not been situated and will be killed.

FWP wardens and bear experts will proceed to observe the location closely, and initiatives to discover the bear are now concentrating on traps in the vicinity of Ovando, they included. 

A Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks helicopter lands in Ovando, Mont., on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, after searching for a bear that killed a camper early that morning. (Tom Bauer/The Missoulian via AP)

A Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife

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