A brown bear has attacked and fatally injured a mushroom picker in Slovakia. According to the rescue team, the 55-year-old succumbed to his injuries on the spot.
The 55-year-old was traveling with another person in a forest area near the village of Hybe when the bear attacked, a police spokeswoman told the online edition of the Sme newspaper.
A cable winch was used
The rescue helicopter team was able to locate the seriously injured man in the impassable terrain and lowered a paramedic to him with a winch.
Severe bleeding
“However, during the attack, the bear had struck one of the major arteries of the man’s lower extremities, causing severe bleeding and cardiac arrest,” the rescuers’ report said. The mushroom picker succumbed to his injuries on the spot.
This is the second fatal injury inflicted on a human by a brown bear in Slovakia in recent years. The last time such an incident took place was in 2021, also in the Liptov region in the east of the country.
1300 brown bears in Slovakia
It is estimated that there are about 1,300 brown bears in Slovakia. They prefer to live in the mountains or in dense forests. Several dozen of them have recently been released for shooting death because they have lost their fear of people or become a danger to the lives, health and property of civilians.
Source: Krone
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