BELLA COOLA — A grizzly bear attack on elementary school students in the small B.C. central coast community of Bella Coola has critically injured two people, with two others seriously injured and seven more people treated at the scene.

B.C. Emergency Health Services says it received a call about an animal attack just before 2 p.m. on Thursday in the community about 700 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.

RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Madonna Saunderson says the attack involved several students, while the mother of a child in the elementary class says teachers fought off the attacking animal, which the Nuxalk Nation says is still on the loose.

Veronica Schooner says a lot of people tried to halt the attack, but one male teacher “got the whole brunt of it” and was among the people taken by helicop

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