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| 04/11/09 10:03 AM |
Re: Bear mauls five people in India
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The Himalayan Black Bear is a real nasty. Near broad leaf forests & higher meddows these bears attack herders in the spring. They are known to kill ponies & other livestock. They are not as big as the Grizzly but more like an average to large black bear.
Sometimes, people hunt bears. Other times, bears hunt people.
Encounters between militants and security forces are a common feature in Jammu and Kashmir, but this encounter, which resulted in death of two militant commanders, is perhaps the most “unusual”. In a first of the kind, two top Hizbul Mujahideen commanders have been killed in an encounter with wild bear in Shopian district of the South Kashmir.
According to the Srinagar based Defence spokesman, Col JS Brar, troops of the Shopian based 9 Rashtriya Rifles recovered two dead bodies from a cave hideout in Dandaloo Nar area of Shopian. On closer scrutiny, troops found that both of the dead men were armed with AK-47 rifles and rug sacks.
Col Brar added that “Both bodies were mauled badly by some wild animal, and apparently by a bear, as the area is inhabited by Himalayan Black bear.”
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Bear-kills-two-top-Hizb-militants-in-Kashmir/H1-Article1-472118.aspx