Killer Bear Terrorizes Bulgarian Village

Society » ENVIRONMENT | May 18, 2010, Tuesday // 08:34
Bulgaria: Killer Bear Terrorizes Bulgarian Village A killer bear has murdered a man in southern Bulgarian mountain village raising alarm with the local authorities. Photo by BGNES

A 65-year-old man has been killed by a bear in the Rhodope Mountains in Southern Bulgaria.

According to Commissar Kiril Hadzhihristev, head of the Regional Police Directorate of the Smolyan District, it is absolutely certain that the victim, Nikola Shikov from the village of Kutela, was attacked and killed by a bear Monday afternoon.

Shikov is believed to have been out in the local forest collecting firewood when he fell pray to the killer bear.

Local people have discovered his mutilated corpse later. They have traced the blood tracks to the den of the animal.

Emil Stoyanov, mayor of Kutela, has explained that the residents of the village are in a state of horror, and are afraid to leave their homes.

He also said there had been attacks by bears on domestic animals and bee-hives every single year in the last five years but that the bears never dared to attack a human before.

“I am very concerned because according to recent data there are some 220 bears living in the Smolyan Municipality. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the bears are starving because there is no functioning system for supplying food for them. Yet, humans should not become food for the bears,” stated Smolyan Mayor Dora Yankova as quoted by dir.bg.

Yankova has called upon everybody in the area to be alert over the danger, and has moved to convene a meeting of all responsible local institutions including the Regional Environment and Waters Inspectorate, the Regional Forestry Agency, and the police in order to figure out a solution to what appears to be an emering starving bears issue.

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