April 30, 2012
From WKYT.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A hunter who was bitten in the head by a
brown bear managed to escape the attack with only minor injuries to
his scalp.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that 48-year-old
Rodd A. Moretz was attacked Saturday by the bear after he killed
another bear on Kodiak Island.
The Fairbanks man told Alaska
State Troopers that he was approaching a bear he had just shot, but
his path took him near a bear den.
Troopers say that's when
a brown bear came out, charged him and they rolled about 50 feet
down a hill after colliding. Moretz was able to get away, and the
bear went back to the den.
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