Coyotes are biting people in Lake Las Vegas , according to officials.
Animal Control Administrator for Henderson , Las Vegas Danielle Harney said coyotes have bitten four people in the last three months, including two incidents in January.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife added that one of the incidents involved a little girl who was bitten by a coyote outside the Lake Las Vegas Village grocery store. In a separate incident, a woman from Wyoming was bitten by a coyote as she was sitting on a bench in the village, FOX5 reported.
Ms Harney added that coyote bites can occur unexpectedly , especially for people not from the area.
“For people that frequent that area or live up there, or even people that don’t frequent that area and just go up there for lunch or dinner or something and they sit out, they have no idea. They might just be nicely viewing, thinking they’re viewing the wildlife and it just walks right up to them which was one of the incidents of one of the bites. The person really had no idea the coyote was going to approach them and be that close that quickly,” she told FOX5