A toddler was attacked by coyotes on Huntington Beach in California. The incident happened on Thursday night, according to local news. The girl suffered non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.
A toddler was attacked by a coyote on a California beach earlier this week and the incident was videotaped. FOXLA reported that the attack took place on Thursday night near Huntington Beach pier. The unknown child was with his family when the animal, which according to the witnesses was hiding nearby, attacked her. A video posted by FOX A reporter Travis Rice shows the moment when the coyote was over the young girl for about 15 seconds and then left running. “It was all the way down here and then it came back,” Garie Joncon, a witness, told KABC-TV. “We saw it, and suddenly it came in from this family, and it was a child on the ground, and then about five minutes later, we walked back, a whole crowd around the baby. The baby obviously became a little bit.” The child was taken to a local hospital and suffered injuries that are not life-threatening, according to the agency. In addition, the girl was tested for rabies. The Orange County registry reported that police located and shot two coyotes and killed one. However, police did not know if the coyote was behind the attack. The second coyote was injured but managed to escape from the officers. They managed to locate it in a trailer park on Friday and state animal officials euthanized it, according to the report. “The body will be sent to a laboratory in Sacramento, where wildlife criminologists will work on it this Saturday and try to compare DNA samples from any of the corpses with those taken from the victim’s bite wounds. “, Said the police. newsletter received from the agency. “Both will also be tested for rabies, which becomes post-mortem, which usually takes a few extra days.” Read the original article in Insider
