A terrified mushroom picker has told how a furious bear bit off his nose and battered him senseless in a forest in China.
Victim He Yunguang, 50, was attacked while he was foraging in mountains near the village of Dagang, in Sichuan Province, on 15th June.
Horrified Yunguang said he only saw the huge black bear in dense woodlands when it reared up on its hind legs as he was almost face to face with it.
He explained: “When I noticed it, it was only one metre away from me.
“It was huge and taller than a human when it stood up.”
He said that the bear lunged at him, biting his face and slashing at him with its huge paws.
But just as suddenly, it broke off its attack.
Yunguang said later: “If it had continued, I would have died.”
Desperate Yunguang wrapped clothes around his gushing facial wounds to slow down the bleeding and ran five kilometres (three miles) to get help from villagers.
The man seized the moment and quickly got up and ran off, pausing only to wrap some clothes around his face in a bid to stop the bleeding.
Yunguang was rushed to Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, where horrific scans of his injuries show the right side of his nose had been completely bitten off.
Cosmetic surgeon Dr Cui Wei led a painstaking series of operations lasting over five hours to reconstruct Yunguang’s nose, according to local media reports.
He is now recovering from his ordeal.
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