State of emergency declared in Liptovsky Mikulas after bear attack. Five people injured, including a child, a few days after the death of a woman in a similar incident.
A number of bear attacks have occurred in Slovakia in recent years. A fatal one in 2021, reported at the time as the first in a century in that region, was reported as the result of a bear attack in the Tatra Mountains. The attack took place on Sunday in the town of Liptovský Mikuláš.