Spanish police guide bear back from city centre to mountains

A brown bear roams Ponferrada in images released by the city’s police, who advised ‘maximum care be taken’. Photograph: Policía municipal de Ponferrada

Spanish police came to the aid of a brown bear whose apparent quest for acorns led him to pad the pre-dawn streets of a busy city in the north-western region of Castilla y León.

The animal was spotted in the centre of Ponferrada in the early hours of Tuesday by a taxi-driver, who filmed its progress around the city and who can be heard in the video exclaiming, not unreasonably: “It’s a bear!”