A teenage girl in Romania has died in a bear attack after the animal dragged her and then dropped her 330 feet off a cliff while she was hiking with her boyfriend.
The unnamed 19-year-old woman was hiking in the Bucegi Mountains in central Romania, near the city of Brasov, on Tuesday when she was attacked and dragged by the animal.
According to the victim’s boyfriend, the bear first grabbed the woman’s leg and pulled her out of the way before throwing her 330 feet off a cliff, where her body was later found and recovered by emergency services.
Rescuers had a difficult task in recovering the body, as the animal remained nearby, so they had to euthanize the ferocious bear, which remained nearby and was particularly aggressive, according to authorities.
The victim’s boyfriend, whose identity is also unknown, was unharmed.
Pictured: A bear in the mountains of Romania. On Tuesday, a 19-year-old woman was attacked and killed by a bear in Romania.
The attack took place in the Bucegi Mountains in central Romania, near the city of Brasov, on Tuesday.
Pictured: Dragon’s Ridge in the Bucegi Mountains, where the bear attack occurred on Tuesday
Speaking to CNN Antenna 3Sabin Corniou, president of Salvamont Romania, the country’s mountain rescue service, explained: “According to the information we have, the bear attacked the young woman on the path, dragged her into the vegetation next to the path and somewhere in this vegetation dropped her into a chasm and there she fell. The bear came down after her.”
“My colleagues went down into the abyss, where unfortunately the victim’s injuries were incompatible with life,” he added.
Speaking to another media outlet, Europe FMCornoiu said: “This is a situation we have not seen before. (…) We have had situations where animals came, threatened, demanded food and made themselves felt in order to receive something. But here, it seems that we are already talking about a direct attack, and this is not typical for bears. We need to see exactly what influenced it. Maybe the heat, maybe some disease the animal suffered from. We need to see exactly what changed its behaviour so radically that we ended up with this type of event.”
According to government figures, there are around 8,000 brown bears In the Romanian Carpathians, it is the second largest bear population in Europe, after Russia.
He World Animal Foundation He said that between 2016 and 2021, Romania had suffered 14 deaths and 158 injuries from bear attacks.
The most recent bear attack in Romania came after a British woman was attacked by a bear while visiting the country. Her injuries were not life-threatening.
The 72-year-old Scottish tourist was driving along a mountain road in Romania when she came across two bears.
After deciding she wanted to take a selfie with the bear, she rolled down her car window, but one of the predators had jumped on its hind legs.
The attack comes just months after an elderly British tourist was attacked by a ferocious bear after she rolled down her car window to take a selfie with it while visiting Romania.
The 72-year-old Scottish woman was driving on the Transfăgărășan mountain road in Argeş county on April 22 when she encountered two bears.
When he stopped the car to take a photo with the impressive predators, one of the bears jumped on its hind legs directly outside his vehicle.
The tourist bravely rolled down her window to get a better look at the beast and prepared her phone for the photo.
But in a macabre turn of events, the bear pounced on her and ripped off her right arm.
His passenger companion quickly stepped on the accelerator as the couple fled the scene of horror, making a desperate attempt to escape further attacks.
The woman was rushed to a nearby hospital after the brutal attack in the Carpathian Mountains.
However, his injuries were not life-threatening.
Romania’s Environment Minister Mircea Fechet has been calling for higher bear hunting quotas to prevent brutal attacks.
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