Kamchatka has a 12,000-strong bear population, the largest in Eurasia. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP
Bears eat two workers in remote Russian region
· Marksmen on alert as geologists trapped at site
· Salmon poaching deprives animals of food source
Luke Harding in Moscow The Guardian, Thursday July 24, 2008
Up to 30 hungry and desperate bears have attacked and eaten two men in Russia's wild far eastern region of Kamchatka, and have trapped a group of geologists at their remote site.
The bears - apparently starving - killed the men last Thursday, Russian agencies reported. The bears had surrounded a local platinum mining company. Both victims worked at the mine as security guards.
About 400 geologists and miners are now refusing to return to work, afraid of further attacks. Attempts by local officials to fly to the scene by helicopter and shoot the bears have so far failed, because of bad weather, agencies reported.
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