A bear attacked a tourist from Moscow in a remote Russian region

In the Todzhinsky district of Tuva, a bear attacked a tourist from Moscow. The man came fishing on the Big Yenisei River. The predator attacked him during the day, the victim was hospitalized. The soft tissues of his face have been torn out, but nothing threatens his life. This was reported by the head of the State Committee for Hot Navigation of the Republic Artysh Salchak.

According to the official, the group of tourists violated the bans that are in effect in the region because of bears. He recalled that there is a chapter order on the complete ban of all activities in nature. In addition, 11 municipalities have a high-alert regime banning people from entering forests. Also introduced a special fire-fighting regime with a complete ban on bonfires, and since September 10, a federal ban on fishing. Despite this, the guests from Moscow went fishing, and there was a misfortune, said Salchak.

Earlier in Tuva recorded the exits of the bear to settlements, but attacks on people before this case was not.

As reported on the eve of MK, since the beginning of the year in Russia the victims of attacks of brown bears were 17 people, six of them died in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to the GSU IC of the Russian Federation on the edge and Khakassia, cases of death recorded in the Yenisei, Sosnovoborsk and Yermakovsk municipal districts. Earlier, the MK reported that in the Yenisei district, a bear killed a 39-year-old man who worked as a logger and watchman.