Bear shot dead in Hokkaido town near site of fatal attack
Police say they received a report from a resident in Fukushima Town, Hokkaido, saying a bear was sighted in the town's Tsukisaki area at around 2 a.m. on Friday.
Police officers and hunters rushed to the scene and spotted a brown bear about 1.5 meters tall. The hunters reportedly shot the animal dead at around 3:30 a.m.
On July 12, a 52-year-old newspaper delivery man was fatally mauled. The place where he was found dead was about 800 meters away from the spot of the latest sighting.
A number of bear sightings have been reported in the town. Experts also found large and small paw prints resembling those of brown bears.
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