Woman who was ‘buried alive’ by hungry bear reveals full horror of attack

Natalya Pasternak (Picture The Siberian Times)

A woman who was attacked by a bear who buried her in the ground to ‘save her for later’ has revealed the full horror of the attack.
Pasternak is still recovering in hospital after the May attack, which left her inches from death.
Natalya Pasternak said that her mistake was to turn back and try to help her friend Valentina Gorodetskaya, 80 – which was when the bear attacked.
Pasternak said, ‘When I saw the bear, I tried to escape. Then I remembered about my friend and stopped. That was the moment when the predator attacked me.

Police took this woman of Natalya Pasternak when they found her (Picture: Vostokmedia/The Siberian Times)

‘Valentina was also hitting the bear with a stick and praying. For some time the bear switched to her and hit her on her back. Then it started tearing me apart again.
‘Then a quick thought hit me: ‘If the bear takes my legs, I’ll be disabled for the rest of my life. It’s better to die then to be a burden to my children’.’
‘Valentina escaped and, despite her age, she made it to a water cleaning facility and called the emergency services.
‘Despite such a nightmare I didn’t go mad. A prayer that I was screaming out loud helped me.’
Police search teams found her under earth and leaves in a forest in the Amur region of the Russian Far East.

The bear was killed when it tried to attack her rescuers (Picture: Tatyana Nikolaeva/The Siberian Times)