A heroic grandmother fought off a raging wild bear with a watering can as it attacked her five-year-old granddaughter.
Elena Kosach, 57, a teacher, single-handedly took on the beast which pounced on little Masha as she played in the family garden in Primorsky region, eastern Russia.
Armed only with her watering can, she raced into a “one-to-one fight with the predator” when she saw it grab her granddaughter, said relatives of the pair.
