A hunter vanished in Japan close to a latest brown bear sighting — simply 75 miles from a city that declared its first-ever bear emergency, fueling fears he was mauled in a chilling assault.
The unidentified man was reported lacking by a pal on Mt. Esan, situated on the northern island of Hokkaido, in accordance with The Guardian.
Bloodstains have been found close by and a rifle, believed to belong to the lacking man, was discovered on the aspect of a mountain highway on Tuesday.
Simply three days prior, on July 12, an enormous brown bear was noticed close to the identical highway.
Native authorities launched a month-long brown bear emergency that very same day for the city of Fukushima, Hokkaido, about 75 miles from Mt. Esan, and deployed cops, firefighters and hunters across the clock in an effort to stamp out assaults.
The declaration was issued instantly after newspaper supply man Kenju Sato was killed by a bear, who repeatedly bitt he 52-year-old and dragged him over 100 yards.
A number of bear assaults have been additionally not too long ago reported on Honshu, the biggest of the 4 essential islands of Japan.
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