A brown bear has attacked and fatally injured a mushroom picker in Slovakia. The 55-year-old man was in the company of another person in a forested area near the village of Hybe when the bear struck, according to a police spokeswoman who spoke to the online edition of the newspaper Sme on Saturday. The team of a summoned rescue helicopter was able to locate the severely injured man in the rough terrain and lowered a paramedic to him using a winch. “The bear, however, struck one of the major arteries of the man’s lower extremities during the attack, leading to severe bleeding and cardiac arrest…