Overview
- A 49-year-old man was mauled about 8 kilometers from the village of Lazo in Primorye, managed to walk out of the forest, and was taken by ambulance to Nakhodka city hospital.
- Doctors treated extensive head and body lacerations, comminuted facial fractures, and an eye injury, spending about 1.5 hours surgically cleaning wounds up to 16 centimeters long.
- The patient was stabilized and directed for further care to the maxillofacial unit of Regional Clinical Hospital No. 2 in Primorsky Krai.
- Hospital officials said it was the second bear attack the man has survived, with a similar incident reported roughly a decade earlier.
- In Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a 33-year-old cone picker fired at dusk after his dog barked, mistaking a person 120 meters away for a bear; the victim died at the scene and a negligent death case has been opened.