A carabinieri soldier was attacked and slightly injured on Saturday evening by a young bear in the province of Trentino, in northeastern Italy, according to information reported Sunday by the Italian press.
The man was taking a short walk in the mountain-surrounded commune of Andalo when the plantigrade unexpectedly emerged from a grove near a sports field and a campsite, the news agency reported Acted. The bear of about two years and weighing 120 kilos knocked the man to the ground, inflicting slight injuries, underlines for its part the Ansa agency, which specifies that the animal was captured in the early morning while going eat near dumpsters.
82 bears in the region
At the end of June, two walkers - a 59-year-old man and his 28-year-old son - were attacked by a bear in the mountains of the Dolomites, in another part of the autonomous province.
The province of Trentino is inhabited by 82 bears, as well as by 13 packs of wolves, which sometimes intrude into inhabited areas or attack farm animals, regretted Sunday the Coldiretti, the main Italian agricultural union. A bear reintroduction project in this province was implemented in 1999, with the support of the European Union, from a dozen bears arriving from Slovenia.