Farmer fights off angry bear to save sheep

A farmer has been hailed after fighting off an angry bear with an axe in order to protect his flock of sheep.

Farmer fights off angry bear to save sheep

A farmer has been hailed after fighting off an angry bear with an axe in order to protect his flock of sheep.

Blazo Grkovic, 48, almost decapitated the wild beast after it attacked him and his flock of animals in the south-eastern village of Vrba in Bosnia, and despite receiving life-threatening injuries, managed to fight off the brown grizzly.

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