A B.C. park has been closed until further notice after an aggressive bear sighting.
At the request of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service, Lynn Headwaters Regional Park was closed effective 7 a.m. on Tuesday until further notice.
Park staff believe the bear that was seen is the same one that bit a 10-year-old girl on July 24.
The girl was bitten on the leg in North Vancouver’s Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve.
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The service said the girl was walking along the Rice Lake Loop trail with her family around 3 p.m. when the incident happened.
A bystander was able to help scare the bear away.
The girl was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, BCCOS said, and no one else was injured in the incident.
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