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Montana wildlife officials say one person was killed in a bear attack at a campground north of Yellowstone National Park. Two other people injured in the attacks and officials are now trying to hunt down the bear or bears responsible.

According to the Associated Press, the three separate attacks were in three separate tents.

The bear attacks left a "male dead and a woman and another male injured at the Soda Butte campground. The woman suffered severe lacerations and crushed bones from bites on her arms, and the surviving male was bitten on his calf," the report said.


“We don’t know if it was one bear, two bears, a black bear or grizzly bear,” Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim said. “Obviously, the bear’s gone now. Will it come back tonight? That’s the question.”

According to USA Today, Chuck Schwartz, a U.S. Geological Survey biologist who studies grizzlies around Yellowstone, estimates that there are 685 grizzlies and probably even more black bears in the 20,000-square-mile area.

A bear rampaging through a campsite, attacking and killing somebody is "extremely rare," Schwartz told the paper.

More details at the Argus Leader.