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> http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040804_1491.html
> 
> Boy Dies in N.H. After Bear Scare
> 13-Year-Old Boy Attending N.H. Camp for Underprivileged Children Dies After
> Bear Scare on Hike
> 
> The Associated Press
> 
> SANDWICH, N.H. Aug. 4, 2004 - A 13-year-old boy attending a camp for
> underprivileged children collapsed and died after being frightened by a bear
> during a hike, authorities said Wednesday.
> Antonio Hansell of Boston and a counselor from Camp Hale came across the
> bear twice Tuesday afternoon on Mount Doublehead, the state Fish and Game
> Department said. Officials said the two ran from the bear at the first
> encounter; they saw the bear a second time while trying to retrieve
> Antonio's lost sneaker and also ran. The bear did not chase them.
> 
> When word reached Fish and Game Sgt. James Goss that Antonio was scared and
> did not want to continue hiking, Goss spoke to him by cell phone and judged
> he was having trouble breathing.
> 
> The boy collapsed, and was neither breathing nor had a pulse when rescuers
> reached him about two hours later, a half-mile from the end of their
> approximately 6-mile hike, the department said in a statement. He was
> pronounced dead at a hospital.
> 
> An autopsy was being conducted Wednesday. Goss said he did not believe the
> boy had any medical problems.
> 
> Camp Hale is for low-income children from the Boston area, and is located
> about 100 miles north of Boston.
> 
> Antonio, an only child who lived with his single mother, was one of 48 boys
> ages 11 to 13 at the 3 1/2-week session, which is to end Aug. 17, said
> Ashley McCumber, president of United South End Settlements in Boston. The
> agency runs the camp.
> 
> McCumber drove Antonio's mother, Ericka Charles, and other relatives to
> Boston from New Hampshire Tuesday night.
> 
> "They're in deep shock," he said.
> 
> He said the family asked not to be contacted. McCumber said Antonio's father
> lives in Panama and had not been a part of the boy's life.
> 
> New Hampshire has 3,500 to 4,000 black bears, which naturally fear people
> and avoid them. Rob Calvert, a Fish and Game biologist, said the last time a
> bear killed anyone in the state was in 1784.
> 
> He said the best response when encountering a bear is to back away slowly,
> talk, clap loudly, and maintain eye contact and to never corner or run from
> the animal.

Jay