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A toddler was attacked by a coyote on Huntington Beach, California.
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The incident happened Thursday night, local news reports.
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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 captured on video.
FOXLA reported that the attack happened Thursday night near the Huntington Beach Pier. The unidentified child was with her family when the animal, which witnesses said lurked nearby, attacked her.
A video posted by FOX A reporter Travis Rice shows the moment when the coyote lay on top of the young girl for about 15 seconds and then ran away.
“It was all the way here, went under and then came back,” Garie Joncon, a witness, told KABC-TV. “We saw it, and then all of a sudden it went through this family, and there was a kid on the floor, and then about five minutes later we walked back, whole crowd around the baby. Apparently the baby was bitten a little bit.”
The child was taken to a local hospital and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the outlet said. In addition, the girl was tested for rabies.
The Orange County Register reported that officers saw and shot and killed two coyotes. However, police did not know if it was the coyote that was behind the attack.
The second coyote was injured, but was able to evade the officers. They were able to locate it in a trailer park on Friday, and the animal was euthanized by state veterinarians, according to the report.
“The carcass will be sent to a lab in Sacramento, where forensic physicists will work on it on Saturday and attempt to compare the DNA samples from both carcasses with those taken from the victim’s bite wounds,” the police said. police in a statement. press release obtained by the outlet. “Both will also be tested for rabies, which is post-mortem, which usually takes a few extra days.”
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