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- Man killed in suspected bear attack in Arkansas</p>
<p>Madeline Halpert -October 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM</p>
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<p>A bear is believed to have attacked and killed a 60-year-old Missouri man who was camping in the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas in a rare fatal attack, according to local officials.</p>
<p>The man's children called police in Newtown County after they had not heard from their father during his trip to Sam's Throne campground for a couple of days, Sheriff Glenn Wheeler said in a statement.</p>
<p>Police found the man's body several yards beyond the campsite, with injuries like those from a "large carnivore attack", the sheriff's office said.</p>
<p>The bear suspected to have attacked the man has been caught and killed.</p>
<p>Officials have not yet released the name of the 60-year-old victim.</p>
<p>Sheriff Wheeler said on Sunday that a bear believed to be responsible for the attack was killed after it had been caught on camera in the campground earlier that day.</p>
<p>Local hunters were called in and brought hounds, which began trailing the bear, and chased it up a tree shortly afterward.</p>
<p>The bear's remains will be necropsied - an autopsy performed on an animal - among other tests, including attempting to obtain DNA samples pn it that match the victim.</p>
<p>"To be 100% certain, we will have to wait on possible DNA matches, but all indications are that this is the bear responsible for the fatal attack," Sheriff Wheeler said.</p>
<p>"This is a relief to me and the community, and I thank God for this outcome. This was a dangerous bear."</p>
<p>The campground remains temporarily closed.</p>
<p>The man had sent his family pictures of a bear in his camp site before the attack, officials said, helping them identify the animal - a young male that matched the size of the photographed bear and had the same facial colorations.</p>
<p>Arkansas is home to over 5,000 black bears, the only species of bear in the state.</p>
<p>Bear attacks, especially fatal ones, are not common in North America.</p>
<p>From 1900 to 2009, just 63 people died from a black bear attack in North America, according to a study in the Journal of Wildlife Management.</p>
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