Two hikers were hospitalized after fighting off a brown bear on an Alaskan trail, officials said Wednesday.

The two people, who were not named by authorities, were about a quarter-mile up the Exit Glacier Trail in the Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska, the state Department of Public Safety said in a news release . The trail allows access to a number of routes within the park, according to the National Park Service .

The hikers "had to fight off the bear" and sustained non-life-threatening injuries, the department said. They were admitted to an emergency room at a hospital in the area.

The trail was closed, the department said, and was set to be assessed by biologists, state troopers and wildlife troopers on Thursday morning. Information about that assessment was not immed

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