By SHIGEHITO NAKAZAWA/ Staff Writer
December 2, 2019 at 16:40 JST
The bear was shot dead after it climbed a tree in the schoolyard of Obihiro Municipal Elementary School. This photo was taken at 11:08 a.m. on Dec. 1. (Shigehito Nakazawa)
OBIHIRO, Hokkaido--Licensed hunters shot a brown bear dead in the grounds of an elementary school here Dec. 1, hours after the animal wandered into the central city's residential area. [Read More]
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