In the Ulyanovsk region, school was switched to distance learning due to a bear sighting

“The bear was seen on the school grounds. Children in the Radishchevskaya secondary school were transferred to distance learning. Now hunters are searching for the animal. As long as the danger remains, the children will be distanced,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

According to the latest data, there have been at least 22 fatal bear attacks on people in Russia since the spring. Two deaths were recorded in Buryatia, another one each in the Khabarovsk Territory, the Vologda Region, Tuva and the Altai Republic. In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, seven people died, in Kamchatka, in the Irkutsk and Tomsk regions - three people each.