Woman trampled to death becomes first to die from elk attack in Arizona after apparently trying to feed the animal

 

A woman is dead after she was apparently trampled by an elk near Kingman, Arizona.

On Tuesday, Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) officials announced a woman, who has not been named, died eight days after the incident in the Pine Lake community, about 15 miles southeast of Kingman.

The attack reportedly happened on Oct. 26 while the woman's husband was in Kingman. According to officials, when the husband returned to their property, he found his wife on the ground in the backyard with injuries that appeared to be consistent with being trampled on by an elk. He also reported seeing a bucket of spilled corn nearby...more