A French man has been taken to hospital after being attacked by a bear in northern Italy, local officials say.
The victim was a 43-year-old tourist who had been out running, according to AGI, an Italian news agency.
It reported that the man's life was not in danger.
"This morning a foreign tourist was attacked by a bear in Naroncolo, in the municipality of Dro" - just north of Lake Garda - a statement from the province of Trento said.
"The man was helped by medics and airlifted to the Santa Chiara hospital in Trento with injuries to his limbs."
Forestry officials are now investigating the attack.
Brown bears were reintroduced to the Trento region between 1996 and 2004.
That plan had allowed for just 50 bears to be introduced, but their numbers have grown to around 100, according to provincial authorities.
In April 2023, a jogger was killed in a bear attack on a woodland path, prompting a debate in the wisdom of having reintroduced the animal.
The female bear accused of killing the jogger in that attack - and whom campaigners said was innocent -was separated from her cubs after the incident and taken to an enclosure.
After numerous appeals from animal rights activists, provincial authorities announced in May that the bear, identified as JJ4, would be transferred to Germany later this year to a refuge near the Black Forest.
