By TAKESHI SUZUKI/ Staff Writer
October 14, 2023 at 17:51 JST
A brown bear captured by a surveillance camera in a forest in Sapporo’s Nishi Ward on June 17 (Provided by Sapporo city)
A man found dead with head and other injuries Oct. 14 was likely mauled by a bear living in the forested mountainous area of Iiyama City, Nagano Prefecture, where he had gone to check on a boar trap he set, police said.
A bear was caught in the boar trap that was near the body.
Local police believe the man was attacked the previous day.
Police said they received an emergency call before 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 that an acquaintance who went to check up on the boar trap had not returned home.
Police and hunting club members mounted a night search but called it off after spotting a lumbering shape, apparently a bear, in the vicinity of the trap.
A search party comprising 22 people, including police officers, hunting club members, and prefectural and city officials, waited for sunrise before resuming the search around 6 a.m. on Oct. 14.
They quickly came across the man, who was confirmed dead on the spot and killed the trapped bear. The animal, an adult female, was about 1.3 meters long.
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