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

CNN ^ | Emiko Jozuka,

[BenLurkin]

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.

Local 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., the bear was shot down by two men from the local hunting association near Sapporo Okadama airport, NHK reported.

[BipolarBob]

Tasers and social workers. He may just have wanted a bear hug. Bears get depressed to by the news, economy and politics. Now his buddies will protest with a Bears Lives Matters signs. Are they gonna shoot them too? What about the Geneva Convention Laws?

[Dr. Sivana]

Isn’t the escaped bear supposed to get a dose of radiation and make him take out Tokyo, or possibly face Godzilla or Mothra?

[MHGinTN]

They tried to recruit him for the movie but he kept caliming he couldn’t breath ... BLM now organizing

[higgmeister]

I wondered from the headline who killed the bear as the police are unarmed.   So, I see they leave it to licensed hunters.