According to her uncle, a 9-year-old girl was camping in Washington, USA, where she witnessed a rare attack by a mountain lion on a man. Authorities said Lily Kryzhanivskyy, a 9-year-old girl, was playing hide and seek in the woods nearby the camp Saturday morning when she was attacked by a mountain lion.
Alex, her uncle said that she was airlifted to hospital with multiple injuries to her face and upper body. She underwent several operations and was released from a coma Monday. Mantsevich created an online fundraising campaign on crowdfunding site GoFundMe.
According to police, the little girl was stable on Tuesday. The uncle's appeal to financial assistance for the girl, as well as for medical costs, is accompanied with photos of her in hospital, her face covered in large, similar to severe scratches.
The Washington State Conservation Agency reports that only 20 people have been attacked in the wild and mountainous state by mountain lions since 1924. Two people have also died. One spokesperson for the agency told local television that they were conducting an investigation to better understand what caused the attack.
According to analyses of his remains, the animal was not rabies-infected. Although cougar attacks, which are a powerful cat that is also known as a American cougar, are rare, authorities advise that you do all you can to "stay up, fight back" and, above all, not to try to escape or play dead.
