NEWTON COUNTY, Ark. – Deputies in Newton County said a man who was found dead near a campsite in north Arkansas may have been killed in a bear attack.

According to the Newton County Sheriff’s Office, deputies said they received a call Thursday to do a welfare check on a man who had been camped at a campground at Sam's Throne near the town of Mt. Judea.

After arriving, deputies said the man wasn’t in his camp, but there was evidence of a struggle and injury at the site. Deputies said there were also drag marks leading from the campground into the woods.

During a search, deputies said they found the camper dead several yards outside the campsite, and his body had injuries that could have been from a bear attack, deputies said. Authorities said the camper was a 60-year-old man from Missour

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