A bear was euthanized on the night of May 27 after an eight-hour standoff within the grounds of a residential property in Tonami, Toyama Prefecture.

At round 5 a.m., an area resident in Kitsunejima, Tonami City, known as the police, reporting ‘a black animal shifting within the rice fields.’

As police, metropolis officers, and members of the native searching affiliation searched, the bear was sighted close to a close-by temple at 8:35 a.m. It was later confirmed to have fled into the grounds of a home with a woodland space.

An eyewitness stated, ‘From there, I noticed the bear.’ ‘Right in entrance of me. I noticed the bear close to these organized stones.’

The bear climbed a tall, leafy tree, and at round 4:30 p.m., members of the searching affiliation used a warning shot to convey the bear down from the tree earlier than euthanizing it.

The bear was a male, estimated to be 3 to 4 years outdated, measuring 110 cm in size and weighing 50 kg.

The space is a rural zone with scattered homes and woodland, and residents had been shocked as they didn’t contemplate it a spot to be cautious of bears.

No one was injured within the incident.

Source: ANN