PORT ANGELES, Wash. —

A mountain lion attacked a 4-year-old child who was walking with family on a popular trail in Washington’s Olympic National Park Sunday afternoon.

Steve Murrow and his father-in-law, Mike Flenniken, didn't realize at first what had happened as they made their way up the trail. But they heard a disturbing sound in the distance.

“We heard, like, screaming of a small child," Murrow said.

Both say that when they got to the area, they saw a woman holding the injured child and people trying to comfort the family.

“There was another group of people behind them, and they were all huddled up, and they're like, you guys need to be careful. There was literally just a cougar or a wolf attack," Murrow said.

The trail was closed after the attack as park rangers searched for t

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