US EditionMotorcyclist killed in bear attack on Romanian scenic mountain road
ARGES COUNTY, ROMANIA, JUL 3 – The motorcyclist stopped despite warning signs and was dragged 260 feet by a female brown bear, highlighting rising human-bear conflicts in Romania with up to 13,000 bears, officials said.
- Italian motorcyclist Omar Farang Zin was mauled to death by a bear on the Transfagarasan road in Romania's Carpathian Mountains on Thursday.
- The victim stopped near a sign warning not to feed bears, and authorities say human behaviors contribute to increased attacks amid the large bear population.
- Zin was wearing full protective gear and a helmet, but the bear dragged him over 200 feet down a ravine, and he was already dead when rescuers arrived.
- Romania is home to the biggest brown bear population within the European Union, estimated to number between 10,000 and 13,000, and its parliament has recently increased the yearly bear hunting limit to 481.
- Officials have not increased prevention measures sufficiently, prompting calls for higher fines and prison sentences for feeding bears and for better wildlife management strategies.
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After an Italian tourist was killed by a bear, comparisons were made with Trentino, but there are differences between the Alps and the Carpathians.
Omar Farang Zin posted selfies and videos with a bear on his Facebook page the day before the tragic event while riding on Romania's Transfagarasan Highway. After he got off his motorcycle and offered one of the beasts food, it dragged him into the forest and killed him.
A fatal incident occurred on a country road popular with tourists in Romania. A bear attacked a vacationer and dragged him into the forest.
Bear Drags Biker to His Death in Romanian Mountains
An Italian tourist was dragged to his death by a bear in Romania's Carpathian Mountains, authorities say. Omar Farang Zin, who had been riding his motorcycle through the mountains, was dragged more than 200 feet down a gully and mauled to death by a female bear on Thursday, the Telegraph...
He was on a journey through Croatia, Serbia and Romania and had arrived at Transfagarasan with his bike, Omar's "Farang" Zin. And there, on the road also called Ceausescu's madness, he was killed by a bear in Romania. The great presence of bears he had documented himself in his last post on Facebook on July 2, when he had also posted two videos with plantigrades. In one he sees the animal on the side of the road while he passes in motion and say…
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