A bear injured a woman at the Lutsk Zoo. This happened at half past six in the evening, when a forty-three-year-old zoo worker set about feeding it. That day, as reported by Volodymyr Honcharov, director of the Leisure and Recreation Center named after the 900th anniversary of Lutsk, visitors had thrown a lot of sweets to the bear. According to the director, the worker neglected safety rules, although she has already been working with animals for three years. Having set about throwing the collected cookies and candies into the animal's enclosure, she approached it too closely. The bear struck the woman twice with its paw on her right arm. Volodymyr Honcharov says that this was an accident and the animal's reaction was entirely natural. The bear Misha has lived in the zoo for 8 years already; he is calm and, the director assures, nothing similar has happened before.
\n \nA commission is currently working at the zoo to study this case. According to its preliminary conclusion, Honcharov informs, the accident occurred through the fault of the feeding group employee. All necessary tests have now been done on the animal, and specialists have confirmed that the bear is healthy.
\n \nAs for punishment of the injured woman, the director says that she has already punished herself. The woman was taken to the Lutsk City Clinical Hospital, where she received stitches on her arm. \n