A British Columbia man who fought off a grizzly bear in the East Kootenay region this month has died of his injuries, more than three weeks after the attack.

Joe Pendry’s wife, Janice Pendry, says he died on Saturday morning, from what doctors believed was a blood clot that led to cardiac arrest.

“I’m just at a loss,” Janice Pendry said. “It’s just hard. It was unexpected. The night before, he was doing just fine. He was laughing, he was kidding. He was sitting up, he was eating, joking around being the old Joe.”

She said her husband, 63, had recently been able to walk in Kelowna General Hospital.

“They (hospital staff) were starting to get him up, and walking in a big, tall walker and sitting up in a wheelchair, and things like that,” she said.

She previously described how her husban

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