State department of fish and wildlife are investigating Tuesday’s incident in San Mateo county
Photograph: APA child was taken to a trauma center on Tuesday after being attacked by a mountain lion in rural northernThe attack was reported shortly before 7pm on Tunitas Creek Road in an unincorporated area of San Mateo county, the sheriff’s department said.“Our coastal community had endured so much these past few weeks.
The victim was conscious while being taken to the hospital but there was no immediate word on the child’s condition.The California department of fish and wildlife was investigating the attack. Mountain lion attacks on humans are rare. There have been 21 other known attacks, according to the California department of fish and wildlife.Last September, a seven-year-old boy was bitten by a mountain lion while walking with his father around dusk in a park near Santa Clarita in southern California. The father scared the animal away and the child was treated for relatively minor wounds.
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