A wounded 63-year-old man was taken to hospital.
In the southern Carpathians in Romania, a brown bear attacked a 63-year-old shepherd sheep and seriously injured his leg.
This was reported on Saturday, July 20, by the local portal Digi24.
The incident occurred during the day near the village of Rucker in Arges County, located approximately 150 kilometers north of Bucharest. The bear attacked the sheep shepherd while he was in the barn.
A wounded 63-year-old man was taken to the hospital. Doctors assess his condition as serious.
Recently, this is not the first attack by a wild animal in this region of the Carpathians. Last week, a bear killed a 19-year-old tourist.
In response to this tragedy, the Romanian authorities took measures to reduce the population of brown bears – at a specially convened meeting last Monday, parliament passed a law doubling the annual quota for shooting bears to almost 500 individuals.
According to experts, there are currently about 8,000 brown bears living in the Romanian Carpathians, which occupy about a third of the country’s territory. This is the second largest population of these carnivorous mammals in Europe. More of them live only in Russia.
Recall that earlier a couple from Belarus unexpectedly encountered a bear during a tourist trip in the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia. A frightened woman tried to escape from the beast, fell down a steep slope and died.
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