Residents of a town in Hokkaido, northern Japan, are still on the alert for a brown bear, days after an attack there left one person dead.
Police in Fukushima Town said officers on patrol noticed damage to the doors of a garbage storage shed on the premises of a supermarket and home improvement store at around 11:30 p.m. on Monday.
They said there was no problem an hour earlier, and that pet food and other items inside had been taken.
The shed is about 400 meters north of where a newspaper delivery man was killed by a brown bear on Saturday.
On Monday morning, food waste was found scattered around the shed.
Store manager Iwabuchi Yuki said they cannot close the supermarket because it’s the only one in town. He said some employees come to work on foot, so he is thinking of picking them up and dropping them off by car to ensure their safety.
The municipal government is urging local residents not to put their garbage out at night.
One man said when he takes the trash out, he checks to make sure there are no bears around.
Town official Nakatsuka Masashi said food waste may be attracting the animals, so they want people to put out their garbage only on collection day.
AloJapan.com