Local officials have shot dead a bear in a northern Japanese town where a man was killed in a bear attack last week. Police are investigating whether the bear is the one that attacked the man.
Police say they received a report from a resident in Fukushima Town, Hokkaido, saying a bear was sighted in the town’s Tsukisaki area at around 2 a.m. on Friday.
Police officers and hunters rushed to the scene and spotted a brown bear about 1.5 meters tall. The hunters reportedly shot the animal dead at around 3:30 a.m.
On July 12, a 52-year-old newspaper delivery man was fatally mauled. The place where he was found dead was about 800 meters away from the spot of the latest sighting.
A number of bear sightings have been reported in the town. Experts also found large and small paw prints resembling those of brown bears.
AloJapan.com