A mother of three was viciously mauled and dragged 100 yards by a brown bear just moments after stepping outside her Alaska home for an early morning jog.

Ariean Fabrizio Colton, 36, miraculously survived the terrifying encounter but has remained hospitalized since the ferocious animal left her with severe injuries requiring surgery Tuesday morning, according to local wildlife officials and her devastated family.

Around 5 a.m., the bear charged from a nearby property and ambushed Colton roughly 150 feet from her Kenai home, dragging her down the road before a neighbor found her shocked and bloodied body in his yard, Alaska Wildlife Trooper David Looring told KTUU. 4

“He heard the barking, wolfing sound of a bear, he’d been around bears before and he thought a bear might have got

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