A brown bear has attacked a 14-year-old girl and a 68-year-old manwho has suffered serious injuries, in an urban area in Brasov County, in central Romaniareports the portal on Monday Kronika.ro.
The teenager, six months pregnanthas reported that He was walking with his brother-in-law down a street from the village of Krizba when the bear attacked them.
The man was able to jump over the fence of a house and get to safety, but The teenager was unable to escape and was hit by the animal, which scratched his back.
The bear released the minor and then attacked another person, a 68-year-old man, who suffered serious injuries.
This man was admitted to the plastic surgery department of the Brasov Emergency Hospital, where he will undergo several operations, since He suffered multiple facial injuriesscalp and neck, as reported by that center.
The minor has been admitted to the Maternal Hospital in that region.
“Both people are conscious and will be transported to hospital units for further medical checks and specialized care,” a medical source told Kronika.ro.
Authorities have issued an alert in the region due to the presence of the bear.
Other bear attacks
In mid-September A man who was picking mushrooms was seriously injured by a bear in a forest in the Romanian county of Harghita, about 120 kilometers north of Brasov, where last August A 19-year-old woman died after being attacked by anotheror bear.
The Romanian Parliament authorized last August Kill 426 brown bears by 2025 to reduce overpopulation of these animals and thus avoid attacks on citizens.
Romania, as well as other European countries, has recorded in recent decades an increasing presence of brown bears due to protection programs.
At the same time, the Raids by brown bears on localities in search of foodin the face of the loss of natural spaces.
Brown bears in Romania are a protected species:
According to official data, in the last 20 years In Romania there have been registered 26 dead and More than 270 injured by attacks from these predators.
40 percent of the total population of the bear brown in Europe lives in Romaniawhere an estimated 7,200 specimens live.
In March this year, Bucharest asked the European Commission to reassess the protection status of these animals in the face of its expansion to populated areas.
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