Sorry, can't help speculating towards what happened. I would guess they were lying in the tent, heard the bear approach, and after the bear broke through the tent they probably shot it with bear spray. If you shoot bear spray in the tent it's going to seriously affect your own eyesight and respiratory system. To what extent the bear was incapacitated well never know, but maybe it was OK enough to come back in a few moments and continued what it started. It's possible the couple were worse off from the bear spray. I was in a house once where a can was discharged just lightly and you had to leave the house, I was on a different floor and sleeping and I had to leave, it was so bad.
Either way, tragic, they seemed like a nice couple.
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