In Bashkiria, the hunter shot the priest, taking him for a bear

A priest from the Orenburg region was injured from a hunting rifle in the Bashkir forest, Interfax reports.

The priest was in the bushes when a local pensioner with a gun he walked by a noise and shot, taking him for a large beast. The priest was wounded in the leg, he needed hospitalization.

The hunter had a resolution on weapons and a ticket, but he did not deny his guilt. What the priest did in the forest, the interlocutor of the agency could not say.

A check is carried out, the procedural decision will be made after the forensic medical examination.