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Updated Monday, March 18, 2024-08:42

Two people have been injured in the Slovak town of

Liptovský Mikulás

after the attack of a large bear that entered the town, leaving a 49-year-old woman injured in the shoulder and a 72-year-old man injured with a cut on the head. .

Part of the incident has been recorded and in the video you can see how the bear faces the man, attacking him as he sees him.

Authorities have reported that

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 .

In that event, the 31-year-old woman was walking with a man in the area, an area of ​​thick forest and steep ravines, when they were attacked by the animal.

The companion of the deceased has reported that they fled in different directions and the bear chased the woman.

Her body was later discovered by a search dog after the man asked the rescue services for help.

Slovakia

has suffered a large number of bear attacks in recent years, including a deadly attack in 2021, which at the time was the first in Slovakia in a century.

But improvements in environmental protection laws and protocols in central and eastern Europe since 1989 have seen bears return to their natural habitats along the

Carpathian mountain range

, which stretches from

Romania

through western

Ukraine.

and to Slovakia and

Poland

.

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In the country, several politicians from the populist-nationalist coalition have requested that protection for bears be made more flexible and that the number of bears be regulated through controlled hunting.

For its part, the Slovak

Ministry of the Environment

is going to present, together with Romania, a proposal at the next Council of EU Environment Ministers to reclassify bears on the list of protected species, since their number means that they are no longer They are in danger, according to this organization.

These statements clash with those of the researchers, who do not speak of an overpopulation of bears in Slovakia and assure that the number of these animals remains stable at around 1,275.