A schoolgirl has been hospitalised after she was mauled by a cougar while playing hide-and-seek with pals.
Lily Kryzhanivskyy, 9, was in the woods with two friends while attending a camp in Fruitland, Washington State in the US at the time of the attack on Saturday.
She jumped out to try and surprise her friends, but a cougar lunged at her instead, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement.
