Yukon RCMP confirmed this morning that they are investigating two deaths following what is suspected to be a bear attack Monday.

According to a social media post from the RCMP’s account, the Yukon Coroner’s Service is involved in the investigation involving the deaths of two people.

The suspected incident happened northeast of Mayo, close to the Northwest Territories border.

Reached late this morning, Yukon RCMP spokesperson Coralee Reid confirmed that police from the territory’s Mayo detachment received a call at around 3:45 p.m. Monday.

It was not a call from a member of the public, she said, adding that investigators were currently traveling to the “remote location.”

While it wasn’t the first time the police have been involved in something like this, Reid said, she would not call such an incident common.

Environment Yukon is also helping with the current investigation.

Reached this morning, a department spokesperson confirmed that conservation officers are assisting, but could not speak to the deaths from the suspected attack as that rests with the coroner.

For its part, the coroner’s office said there was no new information that could be released at this point aside from what was tweeted out.

Coroner Heather Jones said a release will be issued that may detail some of the circumstances leading up to the suspected attack, but could not verify when that would be. Reid suggested it may be later this afternoon.

There have been other high-profile fatal bar maulings in the Yukon and northern B.C. over the years.

In the mid-1990s, a young B.C. woman was fatally mauled by a young grizzly bear while returning from an overnight trip near Kluane National Park.

It was the first time something like that had happened in the park.

Her husband tried to save her, but was knocked down and bitten on the leg by the bear.

There have been reports about grizzly bears tearing through homes in Mayo and Haines Junction since.

In 1997, two people died and two teens were injured by a bear at Liard Hot Springs in northern B.C. That bear was eventually shot by a tourist who had a firearm in his vehicle.

In 2006, a young male in his late 20s passed away after staking mining claims for his Yellowknife employer in the Ross River area. He came close to a grizzly den and was killed by a protective sow.

The case sparked discussion between his employer and the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board, among others, about the level of preventability.

And more recently, a Yukon woman died after a bullet that was fired by her partner to kill a grizzly bear that was mauling her outside their home deflected.

That was in Johnson’s Crossing in October 2014, with the bear shot dead and another bullet striking the woman in the chest, the coroner’s report found.