Two people were admitted to the hospital after a bear attack in the Slovak town of Liptovsky Mikulas, the emergency services of that town announced.
Officials confirmed that a 49-year-old woman suffered a shoulder injury, while a 72-year-old man was treated for cuts to his head.
The police managed to drive the animal out of the city into the forest, according to reports.
Videos on social networks show the bear running down the road, and one of them shows it charging at a man on the sidewalk.
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A day earlier, the news was published that a 31-year-old Belarusian woman allegedly died after falling while trying to escape from a brown bear in the nearby Slovak mountains of the Lower Tatras.
She and a man were walking in this area through dense forest and steep ravines, when they were attacked by a bear.
The man claimed that they were running away from the animal in different directions.
Shortly after he called for help, sniffer dogs found the woman's body.
In previous years, there were several bear attacks in Slovakia, and one of them was fatal, which is the first such case in this country in the previous 100 years.
Better environmental protection conditions, which have been in place in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989, have helped the bears return to their natural habitats in the Carpathian mountain range, which stretches from Romania, through western Ukraine to Slovakia and Poland.
Some members of the Slovak populist-nationalist coalition are calling for the introduction of a lower level of bear protection, in order to regulate the growing number of bears by hunting.
The Ministry of the Environment of this Slovakia announced that together with their colleagues from Romania, they will propose to the Council of Ministers of Environmental Protection of the European Union that bears be treated differently in the list of protected species, since the number of individuals indicates that they are no longer endangered and that they could be selectively removed.
However, researchers claim that there was no sudden increase in the number of bears in Slovakia, which according to their claims is stable and amounts to about 1.275 individuals.
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