A southern Ontario police force is issuing a public warning after a second young child was seriously injured in an “unprovoked” coyote attack just east of Toronto.
Durham Regional Police officers were called to Vanier Park in Whitby, Ont., after a two-year-old boy was attacked by a coyote while playing at the park’s playground at 8:30 p.m. on July 5, the police service said.
“The child sustained bite injuries to his face before his guardian and several bystanders were able to intervene and scare the coyote away,” police said in a July 6 advisory.
The boy sustained serious, non-life-threatening injuries, and was transported to a local-area hospital for treatment, police said….