RED PINE ISLAND, Ont. - An American woman has been identified as the victim of a bear attack on a remote island in northwestern Ontario.
Provincial police have named her as Catherine Sweatt-Mueller of Maple Plain, Minn.
She was 62 years old.
Police responded on Sunday to a report of a bear attack on Red Pine Island in Rainy Lake.
Apparently, Sweatt-Mueller had gone to check on her dogs and did not return.
Officers found her body near a bear, which they killed.