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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Brown bear that attacked five people shot dead, says Slovakian minister

A brown bear
A brown bear. Politicians from Slovakia’s populist nationalist government have called for the animals’ endangered status to be relaxed. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images

A brown bear has been killed by an armed patrol after drone technology identified it as the animal that injured five people during a rampage in a town in northern Slovakia this month, the country’s environment ministry has said.

The environment minister, Tomáš Taraba, said the bear, which left a 49-year-old woman and a 72-year-old man needing hospital treatment and three other victims including a 10-year-old girl with cuts and bruises, was shot dead late on Tuesday.

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