Giant bear beats man to death in ‘revenge attack’ after being shot by hunter – World News

WARNING GRAPHICS: The hunter was killed by the bear after he climbed down from a platform in a tree and had his skull crushed by the mortally wounded animal in the Tulun region of Russia

A bear killed a hunter who mortally wounded him in a revenge attack, reports say.

An unnamed 62-year-old hunter shot the brown bear in the Tulun district of the Irkutsk region of Russia.

The Daily Star reports that graphic images from the crime scene show the body of the man next to the dead bear.

It is believed that the man thought the bear was already dead and so climbed down from a platform in a tree from where he had shot it, only for the wounded creature to attack him and take the skull in a final act of defiance shattered.

“As a 62-year-old man climbed down, the mortally wounded bear attacked and killed him,” Interfax news agency reported.

“The carcass of the animal was found 50 meters from where the man died.”

The hunter’s skull was “smashed” and he suffered claw and fang wounds in the furious attack.

“The mortally wounded predator managed to inflict an injury from which the hunter died,” said the regional office of the Russian Interior Ministry.

The hunter was reported missing before officers were able to locate him.

The macabre scene was located after a search party was organized in the Siberian region.

However, bear attacks in Russia are common.

Last year, a teenager was mauled to death by a bear that devoured “half his body” while taking a shortcut to more dangerous trails in a Russian national park.

Two other tourists were confronted by the ferocious predator nine hours later as they went to search for the 16-year-old tour guide and were confronted by the bear, which pounced on them.

One of the men managed to stab the animal in the neck several times with a penknife before it played dead, and the other rushed back to sound the alarm.

Ergaki National Park inspectors made a grim discovery when they discovered the bear lying on the half-eaten body of the 16-year-old boy about 500 meters from the tourist camp in the Sayan Mountains.