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Teen gored, thrown by bison in North Dakota national park

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A tourist walks in a parking lot near a bison, right, July 15, 2019, in Grand Canyon of Yellowstone National Park, Wy. (AP Photo)
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The Associated Press
July 29, 2019 - 9:10 am
 

MEDORA, N.D. — A teenage visitor to a national park in North Dakota has been injured by a bison.

Officials at Theodore Roosevelt National Park say the 17-year-old girl from Colorado was on a trail Saturday and walked between two bull bison that had been fighting. One bison charged the teen. She was struck in the back, gored in the thigh and tossed about 6 feet into the air.

Park rangers and Billings County paramedics treated the girl at the scene until she could be taken by helicopter to a Bismarck hospital. Authorities say the teen’s condition is stable.

Park regulations require that visitors stay at least 25 yards away from large animals such as bison, elk, deer and horses.

A bison charged about 50 tourists over the weekend at Yellowstone National Park.

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