Video shows shocking moment when a young child was attacked by a coyote while on a beach in California with his family

A coyote crosses the sand dunes during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Spyglass Hill Golf Course on February 11, 2010 in Pebble Beach, California. (Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)

• A small child was attacked by a coyote on Huntington Beach in California.

• The incident happened on Thursday night, local news reported.

• The girl received non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

A young child was attacked by a coyote on a beach in California earlier this week, and the incident was videotaped.

FOXLA reported that the attack took place on Thursday night near the pier of Huntington Beach. The unidentified child was with his family when the animal, which witnesses claim was lurking nearby, attacked her.

A video released by FOX reporter Travis Rice shows the moment the coyote was on the young girl for about 15 seconds and then fled.

“He fell all the way here and then came back,” Gary Joncon, a witness, told KABC-TV. “We saw him and suddenly he came into this family and had a child on the ground, and then about five minutes later we came back, a whole crowd around the baby. The baby has apparently been bitten. “

The child was transported to a local hospital and is without life-threatening injuries, the newspaper reported. The girl was also tested for rabies.

The Orange County Registry Office said officers spotted and shot two coyotes and killed one. However, police do not know if the coyote is behind the attack.

The second coyote was wounded, but managed to escape from the officers. They managed to find him in a trailer park on Friday, and government officials euthanized him, according to the report.

The body will be sent to a laboratory in Sacramento, where wildlife detectives will work on it on Saturday and try to compare DNA samples from one of the bodies with samples taken from the victim’s bite wounds, police said in a statement. , received from the publication. “Both will also be tested for rabies, which is done after death, which usually takes a few extra days.”

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