Two people are fighting for their lives and several others were injured after a grizzly bear attacked a group of students and teachers in a remote British Columbia community.

The elementary school class from Acwsalcta School — an independent school run by the Nuxalk Nation in Bella Coola on the central coast — was on a walk when B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) responded to a call about an “animal attack” on a trail near Hwy. 20.

“Two patients were in critical condition and two were in serious condition,” BCEHS spokesperson Brian Twaites said in a statement, noting they were tended to by paramedics before being taken to hospital.

“Another seven people were cared for at the scene but did not require hospital transport.”

The school wrote in a Facebook post that it would be closed

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