ROME — A brown bear in Italy has eluded capture for a third day, following its escape from an electrified enclosure in a forested Alpine region. Appeals mounted urging authorities not to shoot it.
It's not clear how the bear got past an electrified fence, then scaled a nearly 4-meter high barrier. Days earlier, the bear had been captured by forest rangers after attacks on livestock.
It's not clear how the bear got past an electrified fence, then scaled a nearly 4-meter high barrier
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Environment Minister Sergio Costa tweeted "Don't shoot." He wants to avoid a replay of the 2014 death of a bear caused by a tranquilizer dart after the animal had attacked a mushroom hunter in the same region.
Elsewhere on Twitter, some on Wednesday rooted for the bear.
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The bear triggered sensor photos on Tuesday, showing it was not far from the Casteller di Trento Center where it had escaped.
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