ISABELLA, Minn. - A bear has been put down following an unprovoked attack in northern Minnesota Tuesday.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office received a call shortly before 11 a.m. from a resident on McDougal Lake in Isabella reporting that workers doing construction on a garage had been attacked by a bear. When they arrived deputies learned that when the bear went after one of the men his co-worker tried to intervene and was bitten on the arm.
The injured worker was taken to a hospital in Ely while the Sheriff's Office put out a Code Red emergency notification message to local residents in the McDougal Lake area of the bear attack.
Deputies and Conservation officers were able to track the bear and put it down just after noon. The bear was a female black bear weighing approximately 200 pounds.
