A Virginia hunter has died from injuries he suffered when a bear he and others were tracking fell from a tree and landed on him.

According to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (VDWR), it was alerted to a “hunting accident” around 9:50 a.m. on Dec. 9 in Lunenburg County, about 130 kilometres southwest of the state capital, Richmond.

Their preliminary investigation found that Lester Clayton Harvey Jr. was part of a group of hunters who followed a bear until it climbed up a tree to escape them.