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A 58-year-old woman has died after being attacked by a bear in a remote mountainous area in southeastern Poland, the
BBC reports.The woman and her 27-year-old son were walking in a forest in the Bieszczady region, near Płoń, when the incident occurred. A firefighter at the scene said that, according to the woman's son, he was talking to his mother on the phone when she screamed that a bear was nearby and then the phone went silent. The son called emergency services, but by the time they arrived, the woman was dead. The firefighter said the woman had extensive lacerations to her head.
The Bukowsko Commune has urged local residents to avoid the forest.
There are about 100 brown bears in Poland, most of which live in the sparsely populated Bieszczady region, but fatal encounters with bears are extremely rare. Previous fatal bear attack in Poland took place in 2014.
Paweł Giba, a spokesman for the local emergency services, said firefighters received a call from the woman's son at around 10:30 a.m. local time.
