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Woman fights for life after being dragged from tent and mauled by bear

A Russian tourist is fighting for her life after she was dragged from her tent and mauled by a wild bear.

Natalya K, 43, was sleeping while on an adventure tour in Kamchatka in eastern Russia when the beast climbed into her tent and attacked her. 

The tourist suffered ‘deep wounds’ after the bear tore her scalp and sank its teeth into her back.  

Her screams alerted other campers who eventually scared the brown bear away.

A medic treated the woman at the scene of the attack before she was rushed to hospital for immediate surgery.

Natalya, from the Russian city Saratov, was also injected with vaccines against rabies and tetanus.

She remains in intensive care and is in serious condition. 

The regional prosecutor’s office released a video from the campsite near the 7,618 ft-high active Mutnovsky volcano where the woman was mauled.

Russian tourist Natalya K is fighting for her life after she was dragged from her tent and mauled by a wild bear in eastern Russia

Footage released by police showed Natalya's torn up tent scattered on the ground

The Russian peninsula of Kamchatka is home to an estimated 20,000 bears

A torn tent and belongings can be seen scattered on the ground.

The Russian peninsula of Kamchatka is home to an estimated 20,000 bears.

The vicious attack on a tourist comes after a motorcyclist was mauled to death by a bear in Romania earlier this month after posing for a selfie with its cub. 

Italian tourist Omar Farang Zin, 49, was riding on his motorbike along the Carpathian Mountains in the central region of Arges when a vicious bear attacked him and dragged his body down a ravine. 

Police and emergency services said in a joint statement that tourists had alerted them to yesterday’s attack, and after an hour of searching for him, they found Omar’s lifeless body.

Just a day before the tragic incident, the motorcyclist had posted a series of pictures on Facebook of a large bear which appears to be stood extremely close to Omar. 

The tourist is remains in intensive care and is said to be in serious condition

He also shared a selfie posing with a bear cub, in which he can be seen smiling, blissfully unaware of his tragic fate. 

A separate video taken by Omar shows him riding his motorcycle as he drives past a bear perched on the side of the road.

‘Here’s the bear!’, he can be heard saying. ‘How beautiful. It’s coming towards me’.

Romanian authorities later confirmed that the bear had been put down.

Omar, a travel-enthusiast, had been working for Milan Malpensa airport just before his death, according to Italian media. 

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