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Over 3,000 bears culled in Russia after wave of deadly attacks: ‘we’ve never had this’

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France-Presse, A. (2026, October 17). Over 3,000 bears culled in Russia after wave of deadly attacks: ‘we’ve never had this’. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3371241/over-3000-bears-culled-russia-after-wave-deadly-attacks-weve-never-had?utm_source=rss_feed

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Russia has culled over 3,000 bears following an increase in deadly attacks that have alarmed locals despite annual attack numbers remaining steady at around 20 to 30 incidents. The article highlights a recent encounter near Siberia’s Irkutsk region where a woman discovered a bear cub and the potential presence of its aggressive mother nearby.

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In Siberia’s Irkutsk region, over 3,000 bears were recently culled after a wave of deadly attacks that has alarmed residents despite annual attack numbers remaining constant at around 20 to 30 incidents per year. A local resident, Daria Tyurneva, encountered a bear cub in a tree and immediately pulled over to investigate but remained cautious due to the potential presence of an aggressive mother bear nearby. This recent spate of attacks has prompted authorities to take drastic measures, a situation described by officials as unprecedented.

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🔮 “We stopped, without turning off the engine or taking off the gear, because we knew the mother could be somewhere nearby,” Tyurneva said, showing a phone video she recorded of the bear.

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Irkutsk Russia Russians

Subjects

Russia GPE · 2× Daria Tyurneva PERSON · 1× Irkutsk GPE · 1× Russians NORP · 1× Tyurneva PERSON · 1×

Narrative

While the number of bear attacks across Russia has remained constant at around 20 to 30 a year, a series of recent maulings has caused alarm Seeing what looked like a brown blob in a tree while driving through Siberia’s Irkutsk region, 36-year-old Daria Tyurneva pulled over, curious to get a better look.

framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-17

🔮 “We stopped, without turning off the engine or taking off the gear, because we knew the mother could be somewhere nearby,” Tyurneva said, showing a phone video she recorded of the bear.

2026-10-17 · South China Morning Post

Over 3,000 bears culled in Russia after wave of deadly attacks: ‘we’ve never had this’ · assertive framing

Claims (5 extracted, 1 hedged)

Over 3,000 bears culled in Russia after wave of deadly attacks: ‘we’ve never had this’ asserted

we → cull → this

Tyurneva → remain → look

She was not expecting to find a bear cub, perched on a branch, several metres up. asserted

She → expect → branch

“We stopped, without turning off the engine or taking off the gear, because we knew the mother could be somewhere nearby,” Tyurneva said, showing a phone video she recorded of the bear. uncertain

she → stop → bear

Her sighting was one of several to spook Russians in recent weeks, as the country grapples with a spate of deadly bear attacks. asserted

country → spook → attacks