Minnesota woman, 62, killed by black bear in Canada
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Canadian officials have identified a Minnesota woman killed by a black bear on a secluded island in Ontario over the weekend.
Catherine Sweatt-Mueller, 62, was staying with her parents on Red Pine Island in Rainy Lake for a family reunion when the bear killed her Sunday, Ontario Provincial Police said.
Mueller, of Maple Plain, 21 miles east of Minneapolis, went outside around 6 p.m. when she heard her dogs barking, investigators said. One of the dogs returned to the cabin but Mueller did not.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Minnesota woman was killed by a black bear while on a Canadian island over the weekend. (iStock, File)
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Her parents called the police.
Officers searched the heavily wooded area about 10 miles from the Canadian-U.S. border. They eventually found a young black bear standing over Mueller's body and shot it dead.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Two other young bears were found acting aggressively in a nearby bush, Ontario Provincial Police Constable Jim Davis told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
No one witnessed the attack, police said, so it was unclear what provoked the bear, if anything.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Attacks of this nature are extremely rare and our hearts go out to the family and friends of the victim," a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry told the paper.
The bear will be taken to the University of Guelph in Ontario for a necropsy, the ministry said.