The girl’s physique was recovered from the forest in Slovakia’s Low Tatras mountains.

In a surprising incident, a girl died after she was chased by a bear in Slovakia, as per a report in BBC. The 31-year-old from Belarus was strolling with a male pal after they had been set upon by the animal. 

Based on the officers at Slovak Mountain Rescue Service, the girl’s physique was recovered from the forest in Slovakia’s Low Tatras mountains, which has deep ravines and dense woodland.

As per the report, each the person and the girl ran off in separate instructions. The 2 had been allegedly being chased whereas strolling within the Demanovska Valley, in accordance with Slovak officers. A search canine found the girl’s physique shortly after her associate sought help. 

When officers found her physique, the bear was shut and needed to be pushed away by repeated bullets fired by the Mountain Rescue Service. Nonetheless, it stays unclear whether or not the girl was killed by the wild animal or died resulting from a fall. 

Although brown bears are widespread all through jap and northeastern Europe, they’re principally discovered within the Carpathian Mountains, which reduce by means of Romania, Slovakia, Poland, and Ukraine. 

There are reportedly 1,275 bears in Slovakia, in accordance with researchers. The nation has seen a rise in bear assaults, with one of many deadliest in over a century occurring in 2021.

The nation’s brown bear inhabitants is a contentious political problem since Slovakia’s lately elected populist nationalist authorities needs much less environmental safety from the European Union for wolves and bears, amongst different predators.

Environmental organisations, together with the Slovak Wildlife Society and the World Wildlife Fund, have opposed any proposals to scale back the variety of brown bears within the nation.