Moscow - A pack of wolves attacked inhabitants of a Russian provincial town on Tuesday, cornering some residents in buildings until police came to the rescue, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.
The wolves were reported by local residents from several locations in the city of Petrozavodsk, some 660 kilometres north-west of the capital Moscow.
The carnivores forced some residents to take cover in an apartment building and a hotel, police responding to the scene found. The officers were ultimately forced to open fire to clear out the wolves.
One of the wolves attacked police officers and was shot dead. The remainder of the pack took cover in a nearby forest, the report said.
Wolves are widely considered a pest in Russia and, outside of nature preserves, are hunted legally, sometimes with the government paying a pelt bounty.
Attacks on humans are rare. Those that do generally take place in Russia's sparsely inhabited central Siberian and Far Eastern districts.
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