On Saturday, September 30, two people and their dog were found dead after being attacked by a grizzly bear in a Canadian park. Jenny Gusse and Doug Inglis, 62, tried to alert emergency services and their families by sending them the message “Severe Bear Attack.”
A terrible encounter that cost her her life. While hiking in Banff National Park in western Canada, Jenny Gusse and Doug Inglis were found dead after a grizzly bear attack on Saturday, September 30th. The day before, emergency services had received an alert from a GPS device about a bear attack in the park. Since the weather conditions did not allow the helicopters to take off, an emergency team drove to the scene by land at night. At dawn, the team discovered the bodies of Jenny Gusse and Doug Inglis, both 62 years old, as well as the body of their dog Tris, 7 years old.
One final warning message
The couple had tried to alert emergency services via a satellite device by sending the message “Severe Bear Attack.” Unfortunately, the rescue workers did not arrive in time and were only able to determine the death of the two hikers and their dog. Following this discovery, the intervention team euthanized an aggressive bear not far from the scene of the tragedy. The area between the Red Deer and Panther valleys has been closed to the public. Banff National Park welcomes more than four million tourists each year and is home to grizzly bears and black bears. This is the first fatal encounter with a bear or grizzly bear in the park in nearly fifty years.
The victims’ family believes the couple was in their tent reading at the time of the attack, The Guardian reports. Colin Inglis, Doug’s uncle, said: “In the end both bodies were found. They were reconnected. That was them. They were always together in life.”