Mother-of-two, 39, killed by brown bear in Krasnoyarsk region

The gravely wounded woman was found by her husband who drove towards her from the village of Lesnoye in remote Severo-Yeniseysk district in the north of Krasnoyarsk region. 

He rushed her to hospital, but Anastasia died from wounds on the way. 

‘The attack happened today in the taiga by Lake Lesnoye, next to the village of Baikal,’ regional police told Podyem website. 

‘The woman was walking on the forest road when she was supposedly attacked by a brown bear. 

‘Her husband found the wounded woman and drove her hospital, but sadly she died on way to hospital.’,

Hunting experts were called to the site, and are now searching for the killer bear.

Anastasia was from the town of Lesosibirsk on the Yenisei River.

The attack was some 400 km north of regional capital Krasnoyarsk city. 

Initally is was reported that the woman, a shop owner, had been attacked in front of her underage daughter; later this was denied.