[at-l] Want to hear about another Black Bear attack?

[MrsGorp@aol.com]

Last week there was another black bear incident over the border in Quebec.  
I've pasted the news article below.
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Black bear killed after death of Canadian athlete

By Patrick White

  
QUEBEC CITY, July 7 (Reuters) - A bear believed to be the one that killed 
Mary-Beth Miller, a 24-year-old hopeful for Canada's Olympic biathlon team, 
has been killed at the request of a Quebec coroner, police said on Friday. 

Police said the coroner asked that the bear be killed so a complete medical 
examination and DNA tests could be conducted to confirm it was the one that 
killed Miller. 

"We are at 90 percent sure that the bear we captured and killed was the 
woman's killer," Haute St-Charles, Quebec, police officer Sarah Coup-Fabiano 
told Reuters. 

She said the black bear was captured on Wednesday night and killed on 
Thursday. 

Coup-Fabiano said that pawprints from the four-year-old 75-kilogram 
(165-pound) female bear matched prints found at the site where Miller was 
mauled to death on Sunday morning. Its teeth were also similar to those that 
left wounds on the victim's head and neck. 

The young athlete from the Northwest Territories was killed while on a 
training run along a forest path at the Valcartier military base near Quebec 
City. Wildlife officials suspect the bear had become aggressive because she 
did not have any cubs, despite carrying breast milk. 

Miller's colleagues alerted military police when she failed to return from 
her training run. Police later found her body on the forest path. 

Since then, the path has been closed and cages have installed along it to 
capture bears in the area. Two cyclists were attacked by a bear on the same 
path three weeks ago. 
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