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A forest worker in Slovakia has suffered several broken bones after an encounter with a brown bear on a remote trail. The incident took place in a densely overgrown forest in the municipality of Kvacany, far away from inhabited areas, a spokeswoman for the state nature conservation organisation SOPSR told the news agency TASR on Thursday. “The bear ran at the forest worker on a narrow forest path in steep terrain, and knocked him down” the spokeswoman said. The 35-year-old then fell down the slope and suffered broken ribs and bruises. The Social Democrat parliamentary president Peter Pellegrin…