ANIMALS and CREEPY CRAWLIES around us.

Ouch ... here is another fatal bear attck ... this time in Ontario! Scarey to go camping or even walking in bear areas now if they're being so aggressive. Ouch again

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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police and wildlife officials were searching for a wounded black bear in a northern Ontario park on Wednesday after it killed a woman and seriously injured her husband as he tried to defend her.
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Jacqueline Perry and Marc Jordan, both 30, were mauled on Tuesday while camping in remote Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park, about 800 km (500 miles) northwest of Toronto, Ontario Provincial Police said.

Perry, a family doctor from Cambridge, Ontario, died as a result of the bear attack. Jordan suffered nonlife-threatening lacerations to his legs and right hand when he tried to fight the bear off, said police Const. Karen Farand.

"He managed to stab the bear a few times with a Swiss army knife," Farand said.

Two men also had an encounter with a bear in the area about 45 minutes before the fatal attack but were able to fend it off.

Ontario is home to about 90,000 black bears, though attacks on humans are unusual.

It was the first fatal bear attack in the province in 13 years, said Jolanta Kowalski, an Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources spokeswoman.

"I can't stress how rare this is," she said.

There have been seven bear attacks in Canada in recent months, two of them fatal.