Bear shot dead after attacking four people in residential area in Japan

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A brown bear was shot dead in northern Japan after tearing through a residential area on Friday and injuring four people, according to a Japanese public broadcaster

A local resident in the city of Sapporo, which is due to host the Olympic Marathon and Olympic Race Walking events at this summer's Tokyo Games, first reported sighting a bear on a road in the early hours of the morning. Soon after, Hokkaido police tweeted they were on the lookout for the bear, writing that since the sighting, many others had reported seeing the bear and that people had been injured.

Police officers and members of a hunting group search for a brown bear on the loose in Sapporo, Japan, on June 18.News footage from local station HTB Hokkaido News showed the bear running along a residential street, crossing a busy road and pawing at the gates of a Japan Self Defense Force military barracks, before running away. Read MoreLocal police said the bear attacked three men, one of whom was seriously injured, and a woman in her 80s, according to NHK. At around 11 a.m.

 

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Sad😢

In the development era of Hokkaido prefecture in Japan, a brown bear slaughtered 7 people and caused 3 people to get injured. It was more scarier than Horror films. Although poor thing, we needed to shoot it.

R.I.P. Yogi …

horrible

Why would guns do this?

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