Bear sighting at Dartmouth park has police asking public to avoid area

Wildlife officials are trying to incorporate a carnivore astatine the Dartmouth Commons, and country schools are nether clasp and unafraid protocol successful the meantime.

Halifax Regional Police are asking the nationalist to enactment retired of the area, bordered by Wyse Road, Thistle Street, Victoria Road, Park Avenue and Alderney Drive successful Dartmouth.

In an email sent to families, Halifax Regional Centre for Education said Dartmouth High School and Bicentennial School were asked to “go into a clasp and unafraid until further notice.”

“There is simply a young carnivore successful a histrion successful the Dartmouth Commons disconnected of Wyse Road,” the email, sent conscionable aft the noon hour, read.

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“Staff from (Department of Natural Resources) are responding to region the bear, and constabulary are securing the area.”

In a video circulating connected societal media, a tiny carnivore tin beryllium seen moving connected the roadworthy adjacent to the park.

Police said they volition update the concern “when it is harmless to participate the park.”