Shocking footage shows a huge bear lunge at a pedestrian after a tense chase down a Slovakian street.

By Sebastian Murphy-Bates, Personal Finance Editor

21:38, Sun, Mar 17, 2024 | UPDATED: 21:45, Sun, Mar 17, 2024

The bear that chased a pedestrian

The bear that chased a pedestrian (Image: X/@ThisIsSlovakia_)

This is the terrifying moment that a bear chased a pedestrian down a Slovakian street before lunging at the human who was desperately scrambling to get away. 

Footage - filmed in the center of Liptovský Mikuláš - was shot on a mobile phone and shows the beast tearing down the street in pursuit of a person.

The apparently unwitting victim can then be seen scaling a fence in terror at the bear who is bounding towards them intent on closing in. 

The person makes it over the fence just in time in the heart-stopping footage, leaving the rampaging beast to leap at the fence in fury. 

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