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Several weeks later a large brown bear was captured on video running through the centre of the nearby town of Liptovsky Mikolas in broad daylight, bounding past cars and lunging at people on the pavement.

Experts advise people not to interact with animals believed to be sick because they might aggressively lunge or even bite.

He says the dog kept lunging for Lydia and in a frantic effort to stop it mauling his daughter, he had to "lie on top of it".

But experts advise people not to interact with animals believed to be sick because, without warning, they might aggressively lunge or even bite.

Vickers initially said he hurled a knife instead of what he thought was a spatula, but also told paramedics and police at the scene Scarlett had "lunged" towards him and the blade "just went in".