Bred bear shot for attacking humans

13:07' 25/06/2007 (GMT+7)

Hunting the bear (photo: Tuoi Tre) VietNamNet Bridge – Competent forces on June 22 shot and killed a bear that escaped from its cage and hurt two people in Hiep An commune, Thu Dau Mot town in the southern province of Binh Duong on June 20. The bear was bred in a cage by a man in Binh Duong Province. On June 20, the bear escaped from its cage and went to a 200ha bamboo forest inside a tourist zone named Dai Nam. The owner and a veterinary doctor came to the forest to catch the bear. When seeing the bear inside a bamboo hedges, they used sticks to drive the bear. Suddenly the bear rushed into the owner and the veterinary doctor to attack. The veterinary doctor was lightly hurt while the owner was hit on his head and fell to the ground. On June 21, the local government instructed the local police, military and forest rangers to catch the bear. Six policemen with special guns came to the bamboo forest to hunt the bear but they couldn’t find it. Till the morning of June 22, after three hours of searching, the forces defined the place where the bear was hiding. Since they couldn’t anaesthetise the bear and were afraid that the bear could attack humans, the hunters decided to shoot the bear. The bear is more than 100kg and had an electronic chip on its body, according to the rules of bear ownership. (Source: Viet Nam Net)