Wolf bites woman in German city shopping area

A woman was bitten by a wolf in a shopping centre in the German city of Hamburg, the city’s deputy mayor said Tuesday, in the first such attack in modern times.The wolf entered the complex in the northern city’s Altona area on Monday evening after being repeatedly spotted in different parts of Hamburg over several days, Katharina Fegebank told journalists.The incident is the first of its kind since the species began returning to Germany almost 30 years ago, according to the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation.According to the Bild daily, the woman was bitten on the face.The wolf had previously been sighted on Saturday in the west of Hamburg and at other locations on Sunday morning and afternoon, according to the local environment agency.Fegebank said that “until yesterday evening the wolf had shown typical behaviour for a wild animal and had avoided human contact”.Pedestrians walk through a shopping arcade in Hamburg on Tuesday, a day after a wolf injured a woman. Photo: dpa