Man dies of a bear attack in Russia

A 62-year-old hunter was killed in a vengeance attack by the bear that killed him in Russia.

The man’s body was discovered in the Tulun district of Irkutsk region, Siberia, with the beast’s carcass found 54 yards away.

The unidentified hunter is thought to have shot and wounded the predator from a tree platform.

He descended from the tree, possibly thinking the brown bear was dead, only to be assaulted and murdered by the beast in its final act.

In the furious woodland attack, the animal is thought to have struck with its fangs and claws, crushing the man’s skull.

The hunter, who had gone missing, was found when a search party was organized in the Siberian region.

‘When a 62-year-old man attempted to climb down, the terminally wounded bear attacked and murdered him,’ according to Interfax.

‘The animal’s carcass was discovered 50 metres [54 yards] from where the victim died.’

The hunter’s skull was ‘crushed,’ and he sustained claw and fang wounds during the ferocious attack, according to the article.

According to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs’ regional office, “the critically wounded predator managed to inflict an injury from which the hunter perished.”
Bear assaults are not uncommon in Russia, particularly in national parks.

A brown bear ate and killed a 16-year-old boy in a Russian national park in June 2021 before being stabbed in the neck with a penknife by a tourist who had also been attacked by the animal.

When they went in search of the missing child at Ergaki National Park in the Sayan Mountains, the beast half-ate the teenager, knocked the tourist, and rushed at another.

The following month, tourist Yevgeny Starkov, 42, was with a group starting to pack up their tents when the bear pounced.

Three other campers stood by in horror as their friend was ripped and gnawed by the drooling beast.

They then fled, traveling for seven hours without shoes in the Yergaki Nature Park in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk area to raise the alarm.