Local authorities killed a bear that mauled a supermarket employee in Japan after the bruin emerged from the store following a three-day standoff. On Saturday, a 47-year-old Itoku worker in Akita w…
Local authorities killed a bear that mauled a supermarket employee in Japan after the bruin emerged from the store following a three-day standoff.
Police sent licensed hunters to take out the bear, but they struggled to find it. They did notice that the bear had consumed large quantities of meat while holed up inside the store.The Itoku supermarket in Akita, Japan, where a bear attacked a deli worker before staying in the store for three days.They set up bear traps at its entrances in hopes that it would eventually wander out, the Kyodo news agency reported.
Authorities have warned residents and recommended that they take extra precautions, even those living in urban city areas. While some bruins are expected to start hibernation soon, authorities warn that others could continue to forage through the winter.Police sent licensed hunters in to take out the bruin to no avail — but they did notice the bear ate large quantities of meat while camped out in the store.
Hokkaido is excluded from this count, but it is theorized to have just under 12,000 Ussuri brown bears alone, whose population has more than doubled since 1990.
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