Police shot a bear that mauled a woman jogger in Lappeenranta on Friday.
Following the encounter in the Kasukkala-Sunila area, south-east of Lappeenranta, the bear headed toward the centre of town. The incident was reported shortly before 6 pm.
Police were assisted by frontier guard officers and 50 hunters in their search for the bear, YLW says.
Encounters with bears are common in the South Karelia region. In Lappeenranta alone, 137 bear sightings have been reported to authorities this year.
In June 1998, a jogger was killed after startling a mother bear in Ruokolahti, some 50 km from Lappeenranta -- the first such fatality in the country in more than a century.
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Encounters with bears are common in the South Karelia region...
Published: 04.07.2009 13:18
