Four people, including three children, were seriously injured Thursday when a grizzly bear attacked a school group that had stopped along a trail near a river in a remote part of British Columbia, authorities said.

The Nuxalk Nation reported the attack near Bella Coola, a small, unincorporated community on British Columbia’s central coast, on Thursday, the provincial Conservation Officer Service said in a statement on social media.

Teachers with the group managed to fend off the bear using bear spray and a bear banger, a noisemaker that is fired at bears to scare them away, the service said.

Around midday Thursday, a group of about 20 students and teachers stopped along the trail.

The Conservation Officer Service said the four seriously injured people included a teacher.

Emergency res

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