The mutilated body of the young man was discovered in the province of Trentino. With the help of DNA traces, the animal is identified, and then shot.
Police officers are searching for clues near where the body was found. Trentino Provincial Government / dpa
A runner has been killed by a bear in the northern Italian province of Trentino. On Friday, authorities said it was the first fatal incident of a bear in the country’s history. The body of the 26-year-old was discovered in the municipality of Caldes on Thursday night.
According to investigators, an autopsy on Friday showed that the young man was killed by a bear. With the help of DNA traces, the animal is identified and shot down.
In March, a bear attacked a man nearby. Popular with hikers and tourists, Val di Sole is located in the Italian Alps north of Lake Garda. About a hundred bears now live there in the wild – they were reintroduced between 1996 and 2004 as part of the European Union’s Live Ursus project. According to local authorities, only 50 bears are planned.
