Mountain Lion Shot Dead After Biting 11-Year-Old in Malibu Backyard
MALIBU, CALIFORNIA, AUG 11 – The girl was bitten on the arm and hospitalized after the attack, prompting an investigation by local authorities and wildlife officials.
- On Sunday at 5:45 p.m., an 11-year-old girl was bitten by a mountain lion on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says an investigation is underway, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife now handling the probe after last year’s Malibu Creek State Park attack.
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers shot and killed the mountain lion after deputies contained it, and DNA samples were collected from the girl’s bite wound to confirm its involvement.
- There’s no word on where the mountain lion went after the attack, and FOX 11 has reached out to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for more information.
- Last year, a 5-year-old boy was attacked in Malibu Creek State Park, showing that mountain lion attacks, though rare, can happen in Los Angeles County.
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The feline injured the little girl on the arm, leg and lower back. Hospitalized, she is safe and healthy.


Mountain lion killed by authorities after attack on 11-year-old girl in California
Authorities euthanized a mountain lion near the scene of attack and will test its DNA to see if it was the animal which attacked an 11-year-old in Malibu

Mountain lion euthanized after biting girl in Malibu
MALIBU — A mountain lion is dead after trackers found and killed it following an attack on an 11-year-old girl as she fed chickens in Malibu. Authorities shot and killed the cougar. The girl was taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified but non-life-threatening injuries to an arm following the attack around 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the 32500 block of Pacific Coast Highway, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Malibu-Lost …
A puma attacked and injured an 11-year-old girl outside her family's house in Malibu, California, and then chased her mother before she got scared, authorities said on Monday. The girl was near a chicken coop on the property on Sunday night when the puma attacked her from behind, biting her arm, leg and lower back, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Peter Tira. The young victim was treated in a hospital for minor i…
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