Los Angeles [US], July 1: A woman was gored by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park, one of the largest and best-known national parks in the United States, making her the second tourist injured by a bison at the park this week, park officials said Thursday.
The 71-year-old woman from Pennsylvania was gored by the bull bison near Storm Point at Yellowstone Lake on Wednesday, according to a news release on the park's Facebook page.
This is the third reported bison and visitor incident in Yellowstone so far this year. A 34-year-old male from Colorado was gored by the bison near Giant Geyser at Old Faithful on Tuesday. A 25-year-old female from Ohio was gored and tossed over three meters into the air on May 30, sustaining a puncture wound and other injuries.
Park officials stressed once again in the release that wildlife in Yellowstone National Park are wild and can be dangerous when approached.
Yellowstone closed for more than a week earlier this month and partially reopened last week after an unprecedented flooding that caused severe damage to roads and other critical park infrastructure.
Summer is usually the busiest season in Yellowstone. The 8,991-square-km wilderness recreation area, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho, attracted approximately 4.86 million visitors last year.
Source: Xinhua
