In the early morning of June 18, local time, a bear suddenly appeared in the urban area of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan and injured 4 people.
As a result, many primary and secondary schools in the vicinity were suspended, and Qiuzhu Airport suspended takeoffs and landings.
Local hunters sent out a group to round up and killed the bear with a shotgun.
According to reports, from about 3:20 in the morning that day, the police successively received reports from the public that they had witnessed bears in the urban area in the eastern district of Sapporo.
According to the police, people reported that the bear was moving to the south. At the beginning, they witnessed a male in their 70s and a female in their 80s who were attacked by the bear and received minor injuries. 2 A male in his 40s was attacked by bears elsewhere, and one of them was seriously injured.
According to the report, the bear is about 1.5 meters long, and the area where it is seen is the urban street lined with residential and commercial facilities along the Sapporo Municipal Subway Toho Prefecture.
To ensure the safety of students, many primary and secondary schools have suspended classes.
As the bear once intruded into Qiuzhu Airport, the runway was suspended for about 3 hours from 8:30 in the morning, resulting in the cancellation of eight flights.
In the end, a hunting club composed of local hunters was dispatched to work with the police to round up the bear, and shot the bear with a shotgun near Qiuzhu Airport at 11 am.
At the end of 2020, Japanese media reported that "bears" incidents tended to be frequent. At that time, scholars familiar with bear ecology said that the reason was that some areas were affected by insufficient food in the mountains, and bears went to places where people lived for food.
(Producing Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]