“A bear and a bear climbed into the pier area and aboard one of the nuclear submarines. The bears were considered a threat to humans, and as a result, an expert instructor shot them. He used special hunting weapons, “Newsweek quotes from an official statement from the Russian army.
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That’s how we do it in Kamchatka
The incident took place in the military port of Viljuchinsk in the Russian Far East. Footage from it was published by the local news server Kamchatka Info. The killed female and her cub belonged to the family of brown bears and the local subspecies of Kamchatka bears. These are common in the area, but they do not normally behave as aggressively as the shot couple allegedly did.
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The video shows all the beasts swimming to the submarine, climbing on board and sitting down. After the shot, the body of one of them – probably a cub – collapsed into the sea. “That’s how we hunt bears in Kamchatka,” someone commented on the footage in the video. He explained that if they had not been shot, they would return to the village and attack the people.
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