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Bear violates security at Bradley, euthanized

Officials from the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection euthanized a bear at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks after it became a threat to aircraft safety, said DEEP spokesman Dennis Schain.

DEEP conversation officers received a call Thursday evening that a bear was inside the fenced security perimeter of the airport. The officials has received calls for several days that a bear was in the vicinity of the airport, but once it got inside the fence, they were able to locate it.

Conservation officials still were determining the sex, size, and age of the bear, Schain said.

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