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GEORGETOWN, Calif. -- One antheral died and different was injured successful the archetypal fatal upland lion onslaught successful California successful 20 years, according to authorities.
An 18-year-old called authorities astir 1:13 p.m. section clip Saturday to study helium and his 21-year-old member were attacked by a upland lion portion antler shed hunting successful the Georgetown area, according to an El Dorado County Sheriff's Office quality release.
The caller was separated from his member during the onslaught and suffered "traumatic injuries" to his face, according to the release. Deputies and paramedics administered assistance and took him to a infirmary for further treatment.
Deputies searching for the missing member recovered him connected the crushed adjacent to the crouched upland lion astir 1:46 p.m., the merchandise said.
The deputies fired their weapons to ward disconnected the upland lion truthful they could get to the brother, according to the release.
"Deputies discharged their firearms successful bid to scare the upland lion disconnected truthful they could render aesculapian aid," the merchandise read. When they reached him, they realized the 21-year-old had died, according to the sheriff's office.
"A fatality similar this is highly rare," Kyle Parker, a spokesperson for the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, told CNN affiliate KCRA.
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The past fatal upland lion onslaught successful the authorities dates backmost to 2004, erstwhile a 35-year-old antheral was killed astatine Whiting Ranch Regional Park successful Orange County, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's database of "verified upland lion-human attacks."
"According to humanities reports, 4 fatal incidents involving six victims occurred astir the crook of the erstwhile century," the bureau notes. There person been 21 upland lion attacks - defined arsenic "direct carnal interaction betwixt a quality and a upland lion resulting successful carnal wounded oregon death" - since 1986, according to the list, not including the Saturday incident.
The upland lion was aboriginal recovered by wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the El Dorado County trapper, according to Parker.
"The upland lion was dispatched, and the assemblage of the upland lion was collected for further examination," helium said.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife volition present effort to find retired wherefore this onslaught happened, according to Parker.
Mountain lion attacks connected humans are rare, according to the authorities agency. This is the archetypal fatal upland lion onslaught successful California successful 30 years.
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The past recorded fatal upland lion onslaught successful El Dorado County was reported successful April 1994, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. A 40-year-old pistillate died aft an onslaught successful the Auburn State Recreation Area.
Since 1890, determination person been less than 50 reported upland lion attacks connected humans successful California, and lone six of those person been fatal, according to California wildlife officials. In astir cases, the idiosyncratic was unsocial erstwhile the onslaught occurred, according to the department.
CNN has reached retired to authorities for much accusation astir the attack.
CNN's Cindy Von Quednow contributed to this report.
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