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In Russia, starving packs of bears eat you!

Bears eat two men in Russia's eastern wilderness | World news | guardian.co.uk



A sloth of up to 30 hungry and desperate bears have attacked and eaten two men in Russia's wild eastern region of Kamchatka and trapped a group of geologists at their remote site.


The bears - apparently starving and looking for food - killed the men last Thursday, Russian agencies reported. They surrounded a local platinum mining company, where both victims worked as security guards.


About 400 geologists and miners are now refusing to return to work, afraid of further attacks. Attempts by local officials to fly to the scene by helicopter and shoot the bears have so far failed due to bad weather, agencies reported.