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A bride-to-be was dragged from her tent by a raging brown bear and mauled to death in front of her fiancé.

Snezhana Korolyova, 29, was on a romantic camping trip with her partner in the Altai Mountains of Russia.

The bear tore apart their tent at 1am and 'hauled the screaming woman away', savaging her to death and carrying her across the Biya River.

Her boyfriend had proposed to her the day before she was killed by the animal, according to reports.

The beast then began burying the avid powerlifter in the forest as horrified campers desperately tried to distract it.

Gamekeepers and police shot into the air - but did not aim at the beast despite 'having the opportunity to kill it'.

They cited Russian rules about not shooting bullets in populated areas, according to witnesses.

A witness named Alina said: 'They were shooting [in the air], but it wasn't frightened.

'It wouldn't give her up and....dragged her across the river.'

The bear 'brazenly started burying her.'

Snezhana Korolyova (pictured) was on a romantic camping trip with her partner in the Altai Mountains of Russia

Pictured: The Istok tourist camp in Artybash village, in the Altai Mountains, where Korolyova, was pulled from her tent by a raging brown bear

She said: 'Her boyfriend is in shock, he had only just proposed to her. 'It's horrific.'

The distraught fiancé has not been named.

'Tourists have no fear - they know bears roam around the headwaters, yet they pitched their tent in the corner beside the river,' said Alina.

'What infuriated people most was that, despite having the opportunity to kill a man-eating bear, the uniformed officers fired into the air, citing a ban on shooting at a target within a populated area.

'How does that make sense?'

Snezhana, from Russia's Novosibirsk region and educated as a lawyer, had been staying with her groom at the Istok holiday campsite in Artybash village, altitude 1,410ft, on scenic Lake Teletskoye.

Locals said around 20 bears are currently roaming around the village.

Another local woman said her sister narrowly escaped the same bear last night.

'We came face to face with it,' said the woman.

'My sister fell over and crawled into a hut while lying on the ground.

'A man who happened to be driving past saved her. What a hero!

'He shone his headlights at the bear and it ran across the road.

'He even dented his car's wing hitting it.'

A ten-day 'state of high alert' was declared in the village following the bear attack.

'During this period, tourists are prohibited from pitching tents in the forest and along the shore,' stated a local order.

The bear remains at large, according to local reports (stock image of a brown bear)

Snezhana was an employee of Russia's Emergencies Ministry.

Her remains were reportedly found amid reports the bear was seeking to bury her body in the ground.

The bear remains at large, according to local reports.

A representative of the Mayminsky District Society of Hunters and Fishermen, said the slashing of hunting days for wild animals led to the risk of attacks on humans.

'The hunting season was shortened to 30 days. Because of this, the bear population has begun to increase,' said the source.

'Hunters simply can't keep up with their licenses.

'There's little hunting, the bears are reproducing, and the food supply is scarce, nuts are scarce, so they simply come out to hunt people when they're hungry.'

The Altai Republic prosecutor's office has opened an inquiry into the woman's death.