Two hunters from Burzyansky district killed a bear during poaching. press office SU IC of Russia for the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Investigators from the city of Mezhhirya, with prior agreement, completed the investigation into the illegal hunting by a group of people. His defendants were two residents of the Burzyansky district.
The hunt, which led to criminal prosecution, took place on December 11, 2022 in a forest near the village of Baigazino.
The 54-year-old man and his 38-year-old partner were not allowed to hunt. But they took their 12-gauge shotguns and went into the woods, where they found and killed a hibernating male bear.
The hunters began to cut down his carcass and were caught red-handed by the officials’ employees who were raiding against the illegal cutting of forest plantations.
After the defendants previously pleaded guilty, the criminal case was transferred to the court.
Previously reportedThat a bear shot and killed a 62-year-old man in the Irkutsk region. The animal later died from the wounds it sustained alongside the man. The hunter’s body was found two days after he went hunting.