30 December 2003 11:03
Bear mauls man in Kamchatka
A bear has mauled a man to death in the Kronotsky wildlife reserve, the Kamchatka rescue service reported on Tuesday. One of the oldest workers of the reserve and well-known Kamchatka photographer and hunting specialist Vitaly Nikolayenko fell victim to a big bear 1.5 kilometres from the rangers' station. Nikolayenko was taking a photograph of the animal and failed to use the weapon he was carrying when the bear attacked him. The rescue workers brought the body to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
A total of about 600 Kamchatka bears live on the territory of the Kronotsky wildlife refuge but cases of attacks on man by beasts of prey are extremely rare.
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