An 11-year-old girl is recovering Monday morning after she was attacked by a mountain lion in Malibu over the weekend.

The girl was attacked on Sunday at around 5:40 p.m. outside a home located in the area of Pacific Coast Highway and Encinal Canyon Road.

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According to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies, the girl suffered a bite to her arm and was transported to a hospital in Thousand Oaks with non-life threatening injuries.

Wildlife officials later tracked and euthanized the mountain lion that they believed was responsible for the attack.

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