Grizzly kills man near Yellowstone

A grizzly bear killed a man just outside Yellowstone National Park, apparently just hours after researchers trapped and tranquillised the animal.

The Park County Sheriff’s Office said the attack happened after members of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team finished examining a large adult male grizzly.

The victim was 70-year-old Erwin Frank Evert, of Cody, Wyoming, whose wife reported him missing to a member of the grizzly team.

The team member returned to the capture site about six miles outside Yellowstone’s East Entrance and found Mr Evert’s body.

The study team is made up of US federal and state biologists who monitor and study grizzlies in the Yellowstone ecosystem.