Screams and sudden silence: bear attack in Bucegi

A hiker Andreea Orosz, who was hiking to a waterfall Valea Spumoasă with her nieces, heard a 19-year-old Diana desperately trying to scare away a wild animal on the Jepii Mici trail. According to the eyewitness, the girl was trying to follow the rules: she made a loud noise and tried to scare away the predator with a firm, tense voice.

After a long noise, there was a sudden silence. As it turned out later, the bear attacked the victim and pushed her into a cliff, where she died.

The official warning from the Ro-Alert system reached tourists about two hours after the incident, when gendarmes and a mountain rescue vehicle arrived at the scene. At around 4 p.m., a rescue helicopter began an operation to evacuate the body, and representatives of the Salvamont Prahova service confirmed to the witness that the deceased was alone with the predator at the time of the attack.