A man picking bamboo shoots Was attacked by a bear? Koheimachi, Hokkaido May 18 19:26
On the 15th of this month, the 71-year-old man who went out to collect bamboo shoots in Kodaira-cho, Hokkaido disappeared, and police believed that there was a high possibility that he was attacked by a bear.
Around 5 pm on the 15th of this month, Kiyokatsu Sakai (71) in Kodaira-cho's wife told the fire department that her husband had to go home to pick bamboo shoots and not return home.
When the police and the local Hyukai searched, the next day, Mr. Sakai's mobile phone and boots were found in the forest 2.5 km away from the center of the town.
According to the police, the boots had a bite of an animal bite, and a bear dung was found in the vicinity.
The site was several hundred meters away from the house, and police stopped the search because Mr. Sakai was likely to have been attacked by a bear, and called attention to residents in the vicinity.
In addition, Kodaira-cho is also setting up traps to capture bears and installing a signboard at the entrance of the forest road where a car that seems to belong to Mr. Sakai was found, inviting them not to enter.