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A bear kills a man's wife and drags it into the bush while he slashes it with his Swiss Army Knife:
Man fights bear with Swiss Army knife
MISSINAIBI LAKE PROVINCIAL PARK, Ont. Police and wildlife officials were on the hunt for a wounded black bear Wednesday after a woman was mauled to death and her husband injured as he tried to keep the animal from dragging his wife into the northern Ontario bush.
Campers have been ordered out of the back country of Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park, located about 80 kilometres north of Chapleau, Ont., as conservation officers equipped with a helicopter and a dog team scour the area.
Natural Resources officials said Marc Jordan of Cambridge, Ont., was armed with only a Swiss Army knife as he fought desperately to keep the predatory animal from dragging his fatally mauled wife, Jacqueline Perry, into the brush.
He fought back as hard as he could with the weapon he had at hand, Jolanta Kowalski of the Ministry of Natural Resources said Wednesday. But the bear was relentless in wanting to take her into the bush.
Jordan, 30, suffered lacerations while slashing the bear at least five times with the knife, police said. The computer specialist was flown to a hospital in Sudbury, Ont., where he was listed in serious but stable condition.
Perry, 30, was a family physician at a Cambridge hospital. Staff there were devastated after hearing of Tuesdays attack, said the centres lead physician, Dr. Jeff Main.
Jacqueline represented vitality and youthfulness, Main said. Its like losing a child. She was the youngest partner here. Jordan and Perry were on a two-week holiday, camping and kayaking alone at a remote campsite when a black bear hunting for food attacked, said provincial police Const. Karen Farand.
In the frantic attempt to save his wife, Jordan carried her to their kayak and began to paddle to the nearest campsite, Farand said. He yelled for help and a 54-year-old man and his 30-year-old son from Pennsylvania, who were camping at a site, heard him. Jordan put his wife into their boat, which carried them all off in search of help.
About a kilometre away, they spotted and flagged down another boat, which carried a doctor from North Carolina and an off-duty police officer.
The doctor tried to treat Perry while the boat continued on to the parks main office, about 10 kilometres away.
But by then Perry had succumbed to her injuries and was obviously dead, said Farand.