MUSIC NEWS - A young Canadian folk musician was attacked and killed on Wednesday by coyotes while she hiked alone during her concert tour to promote her new album, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.   Taylor Mitchell, 19,  a rising star of the folk music scene, had recently gotten a Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination.

Ms Mitchell was hiking alone on the Syline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park when a pair of coyotes attacked her.   Others hikers rushed to help her and found Mitchell bleeding heavily from mulitple wounds "all over her body", according to The Canadian Press.

"She was losing a considerable amount of blood from her wounds," paramedic Paul Maynard told TCP.



One of the animals was later shot by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but the other escaped.  Park officials said it was highly unusual for coyotes to be involved in such an aggressive attack.

Mitchell was due to perform at a concert at Maxwells in Syndey, Nova Scotia after her hike and was on her first tour of the Canadian east coast.