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Hiker missing after bear attack in Hokkaido's Shiretoko
A hiker went missing near a mountain in Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula after a bear attack, police said Aug. 14.
At around 11:10 a.m., Hokkaido Prefectural Police received an emergency call from a hiker saying that a friend had been attacked by a brown bear near Mount Rausu, the highest peak in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage peninsula in the town of Shari. According to police, the missing man was hiking in a party of two. The fellow hiker explained to police, "I lost sight of him along with the bear."
The police have dispatched a search party with hunters.
(Japanese original by Takeshi Honda, Kitami Bureau, and Yukika Wada, Hokkaido News Department)
