A woman was bitten by a wolf in a shopping area of Hamburg, Germany, marking the first reported attack since wolves returned to the country in 1998.

A wolf bit a woman in a shopping area in Hamburg before it was pulled out of a lake in Germany’s second-biggest city, authorities said, in what is believed to be the first such attack since wolves returned to the country in 1998. The fire service said the woman was taken to a Hamburg hospital after the unusual encounter on Monday evening. There was no immediate information on her condition on Tuesday, and police did not detail where she was bitten. It also was not clear what led to the...