In Primorye, eight non-fatal bear attacks on people have been recorded since the beginning of the year.

Since the beginning of the year, eight cases of bear attacks on people have been recorded in Primorye, all non-fatal.

As a rule, a bear attack is provoked by a person, for example, on a hunter or wild plant gatherer.

VLADIVOSTOK, October 6 – RIA Novosti. Eight cases of bear attacks on people have been recorded in Primorye since the beginning of the year, but all of them are not fatal, said Deputy Minister of Forestry and Wildlife of the Primorye Territory Alexey Surovy.

“Today we have eight confirmed cases of attacks on people in the Primorsky Territory, but they are not fatal. As a rule, a bear attack is provoked by a person, it is usually an attack on a hunter. One hunter stepped on a she-bear who was lying in a den, she jumped up, bit, and ran away,” Surovy told reporters.

Also, according to him, there were cases of attacks on wild plant gatherers, including one of them who found himself between a mother bear and a bear cub.