In Slovakia, they are hunting for a bear that was running around the city and attacking people (2 photos + 1 video)
In the Slovak city of Liptovsky Mikulas, which is located on the border of the Western and Low Tatras, a raging bear ran through the streets and attacked people. Five people were injured. This is the second bear attack in Slovakia in three days - the first occurred in the Low Tatras and ended in the death of a woman. The bear is being hunted. 
A 49-year-old woman suffered a shoulder injury and a 72-year-old man is being treated for a head wound after being attacked by a bear in Liptovsky Mikulas. A 10-year-old girl and two other adults also suffered minor scratches and bruises.
According to local residents, the situation so far is this: the police have driven the bear out of the city into the forest and are taking measures to neutralize it. A state of emergency has been declared in the city. People were asked not to leave residential areas. On Monday, authorities said the bear was still at large and was being hunted by six armed patrols.
“Rescuers and security forces pushed the bear into uninhabited areas, where emergency crews... were ordered to destroy it,” the mayor’s office said, urging residents to exercise extreme caution, especially in the early morning and evening. “Hunters will patrol the risk zone, police patrols will be stepped up, and brown bear extermination teams from all over the country have been sent to our city and surrounding areas. A drone with thermal imaging will also be deployed.
We are a city between the mountains, but still a city. We can't let a bear attack five people downtown in broad daylight."
Footage from a mobile phone published on social networks shows a bear running along the road and crossing a zebra crossing, with frightened pedestrians fleeing from it, then the bear crosses a green zone and rushes at a man who is hastily climbing over a fence to escape ( successfully).
Three days before these events, a tragedy occurred in the Low Tatras mountain range, near the town of Liptovsky Mikulas. A 31-year-old woman from Belarus died while trying to hide from a brown bear.
Improved environmental protection in Central and Eastern Europe since the late 1980s has seen bears return to their natural habitats in the Carpathian Mountains, which stretch from Romania through western Ukraine to Slovakia and Poland.
There have been several bear attacks in Slovakia in recent years, including the first fatal attack in more than a century in 2021. The government is calling for the animals' status on the country's endangered species list to be relaxed, arguing that with an estimated domestic population of 1,275 bears can now be hunted and killed.
