Mission man injured in bear attack outside his home - BERITAJA

Conservation officers are investigating a achromatic bear attack successful the Fraser Valley.

Officers opportunity that astatine 4 a.m. connected Monday, a man was alerted to a carnivore extracurricular his location erstwhile his canine started barking.

The man went extracurricular connected his porch, officers say, and that’s erstwhile he saw the bear. He past tried to get the carnivore to time off by making tons of noise.

However, the carnivore didn’t time off and ran towards the man and swatted his arm, officers said successful a statement.

The man managed to get wrong his location and though he was injured, he was not earnestly injured.

Conservation officers responded to the incident, but were incapable to find a carnivore successful the area, they said.

A trap has now been placed and way cameras group up about the spot to show immoderate carnivore activity.

The Conservation Officer Service said group should beryllium alert of their surroundings and recreation successful groups and transportation carnivore spray erstwhile possible.

Report carnivore conflicts to the RAPP statement astatine 1-877-952-7277.