Byline: Associated Press
VANCOUVER -- Rangers and villagers killed nine grizzly bears on Canada's western coast, after large numbers of the animals began foraging in town when their traditional supply of salmon dried up, officials said Wednesday.
A mother bear and two cubs were killed Wednesday in the most recent shootings and three other bears were airlifted out of the region.
Residents of Oweekeno village on the central British Columbia coast say they have never seen so many bears in town, said Tom Gottselig, the fisheries administrator for the Oweekeno First Nation, an Indian group.
He blamed the lack of salmon, which make up 70 percent …
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