A five-year-old boy has been attacked by a mountain lion while hiking with his mother and grandfather in rural Northern California.
He had raced ahead of the adults on a trail in San Mateo County, south of San Francisco, when the big cat pounced on him and pinned him to the ground, said Captain Patrick Foy from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"The little boy was pretty viciously attacked by a mountain lion that took him to the ground," he said.
