A woman who was jogging in the woods of national park Hoge Veluwe at the weekend may have been bitten by a wolf.

The woman was bitten twice as she was running on the designated paths of the park, Gelderland provincial authorities said.

Bystanders managed to chase the animal off, and the woman was taken to the hospital. An investigation will have to make clear if the animal in question was a wolf or not.

Wolf expert Glenn Lelieveld, of the wolf monitoring centre Wolvenmeldpunt, said he had not had a notification of the incident. There is no footage of the incident but a  photograph has since surfaced of a group of people with what looks like a wolf in the background.

The incident comes in the wake of a refusal by the provincial authorities to grant the Hoge Veluwe an exemption to shoot the wolves.

Ede local authorities and the Hoge Veluwe Park are “preparing steps in case the same wolf shows similar behaviour”.