Two people have been injured in the Slovak town of Liptovský Mikulás. Police chased the bear out of town and into a forest.
The incident comes a day after a Belarusian woman fell to her death trying to escape a brown bear in the nearby Low Tatra Mountains. Slovakia has suffered a large number of bear attacks in recent years, including a deadly attack in 2021. But improvements in environmental protection laws and protocols in central and eastern Europe since 1989 have seen bears return to their natural habitats.