A golden eagle attacked a 20-month-old girl in Norway on Sunday, September 8, forcing her mother and a neighbor to fight off the bird of prey, which was eventually killed by a forest ranger, Norwegian media reported.
The girl, who was playing on the family farm in Trondelag when the eagle swooped down on her, needed stitches in the back of her neck and had her face scratched by the raptor’s talons, her father told public broadcaster NRK.
The child considered “prey”
“The eagle came out of nowhere and grabbed our youngest daughter,” the father said.
“Her mother ran and grabbed the eagle, but had to fight to get it to let go. A neighbour also had to help her,” she added.
Forest ranger Per Kare Vinterdal, who killed the eagle, told NRK that the eagle had treated the girl as “prey.” He said the mother and neighbour had managed to drive the animal away from the little girl with a stick, “but it kept coming back.”
Source: BFM TV
