China News Service, Beijing, March 19th: News from Bratislava: According to the British "Guardian" report on the 18th, Slovak officials said that the second bear attack in the country in three days injured five people, prompting them to A state of emergency was declared in northern towns.
Local authorities said that a bear attack near the Tatra Mountains on the 17th resulted in a 49-year-old woman with a shoulder injury, a 72-year-old man with a head injury, and a 10-year-old girl and two adults were arrested. hurt.
Authorities said on the 18th that the bear was still at large and that six armed rangers were hunting it.
The incident occurred a day after local media said a 31-year-old woman died while trying to escape a brown bear in the Tatra Mountains near the same town.
The Slovak Mountain Rescue Service said the woman was walking with her companions in a dense forest area on the west side of the valley when the bear attacked and she fell to her death while avoiding the bear.
According to reports, environmental protection in Central and Eastern Europe has improved since the late 1980s, and bears have returned to their natural habitat in the Carpathian Mountains.
The Carpathian Mountains start from the Danube River near Bratislava, Slovakia, extend southeastward in a huge semicircle, and end at the Danube River near Osowa, Romania.
The report pointed out that in recent years, there have been many bear attacks in Slovakia.
Slovak Deputy Environment Minister Philip Kuffa outlined a draft law on the 17th that would allow the shooting of bears outside cities under certain conditions.
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