Bear attack was 'like a slaughterhouse'

A Swedish hunter, attacked and mauled by a fully grown bear over the weekend, woke in hospital on Tuesday.

“It was as bloody as a slaughterhouse,” the man's brother, arriving first on the scene, told the Aftonbladet paper.

Per Hedberg, 55, had been hunting with his brother in Bollnäs, eastern Sweden, when the bear awoke from hibernation and attacked him.

The hunter managed to free himself from the bear with a shot, wounding the animal, and then make a mobile phone call to his brother who was nearby, according to newspaper.

His brother had already heard the shot from afar when he received the call.

“I’ve been bitten by a bear. Now I’m dying,” his brother said to him.

Police gave orders for the bear to be tracked and killed, and the municipality’s specialist hunter with the help of local hunting teams succeeded to fell him on Sunday.

http://www.thelocal.se/38846/20120201/