A boy was taken to a trauma center Tuesday after being attacked by a mountain lion in rural Northern California, authorities said.
The attack was reported just before 7 p.m. on Tunitas Creek Road in unincorporated San Mateo County, the Sheriff’s Department said.
The area is south of Half Moon Bay.
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A child was attacked by a California mountain lion on Tunitas Creek Road in San Mateo County.
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The victim was conscious as she was taken to the hospital, but there was no immediate word on the boy’s condition.
Other details were not immediately released.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife was investigating the attack.
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Mountain lion attacks on humans are rare. There have been about 20 confirmed attacks in California in more than a century of record keeping, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Last September, a 7-year-old boy was bitten by a mountain lion while walking with his father at dusk in a park near Santa Clarita in southern California. The father startled the animal and the boy was treated for relatively minor injuries.
