‘I could count all its teeth’: Italian couple find burglar is endangered brown bear

Midnight visit by Marsican bear follows siting in neighbouring village fountain

An Italian woman who investigated what she thought was a burglar on her balcony, has described a petrifying encounter with a rare brown bear.

The Marsican bear had climbed on to her bedroom balcony in Pescosolido, a village in the Lazio province of Frosinone, just days after a bear was spotted bathing in the fountain of a neighbouring village.