News about bear attack: events, facts and developments on tafs uz.
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Near Gornozavodsk in Perm Krai, a bear attacked a man who had gone into the forest. The victim survived, his condition is assessed as satisfactory, and he is receiving medical care. The Interior Ministry urged residents not to go into the forest in this area and gave recommendations in case of an encounter with the predator.
Otabek YusupovOn November 5, an EMERCOM helicopter evacuated a hunter who had spent nearly a week in a forest hut 160 km from the nearest settlement after a bear killed his companion. Two friends had made their way to him and also became stranded in the taiga.
Otabek YusupovIn the Canadian province of British Columbia, 48-year-old Jennifer Balkarras and her 20-year-old daughter Sela Reid were found dead after going missing on 1 November following a walk near Bella Coola. The conservation service suspects a grizzly bear was involved and is setting traps; it is unclear whether the predator acted alone.
Otabek YusupovThe 64-year-old man attacked by a bear on the night of November 3 near the village of Ratta is in intensive care with a fractured skull; his condition has not changed over the past 24 hours. This is already the second predator attack on a human in the okrug within a single day: earlier, in the settlement of Urengoy, a bear mauled a local resident to death.
Otabek YusupovThree men were unable to get out of the taiga of the Kuraginsky district after a bear killed experienced hunter Vitaly Yelfimov. The rescue operation was postponed several times due to snowfall; on November 5, an Emergency Ministry helicopter finally took off.
Otabek YusupovIn the settlement of Urengoy, a bear attacked a local resident, and the man died. The predator was found and put down, and the regional Investigative Committee is looking into the circumstances. Residents of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug are reminded of high bear activity and asked to refrain from trips into the forest.
Aziz Karimov
