Grizzly 'comes back from dead' to attack hunter who shot it

A hunter has been attacked by a grizzly bear he had shot and left for dead the day earlier.

Larry J Miller's life was saved by his wife Brinda, who shot the grizzly dead as it tried to tear her husband to pieces.

The animal jumped on Mr Miller as he returned to the scene of the shooting in the forests near Anchorage, Alaska.

Both Mr Miller and his wife believed there was no way the animal could have survived.

Mr Miller told the Anchorage Daily News: "The noise it made, like nothing you've ever heard - snapping, snapping, snapping. This happened in two seconds. He knew who I was. He could smell my guns or the caribou meat on me, something."

The bear hit him and he fell back and started kicking as the grizzly tried to bite his face and neck.

As he struggled to take the safety off of his rifle, the bear started biting him across his calf.

He yelled for his wife to shoot.

Mr Miller told the paper: "She stuck the gun over my face and fired. There was this horrible noise out of his throat. The next time he grabbed me between the ankle and calf and picked me up and shook me like I was a half-a-pound kid."

The bear finally slumped dead after Mrs Miller shot it in the chest three times.