TOKYO, Sep 23 (News On Japan) –
Witnesses have recounted a detailed encounter with a bear in a residential space of Sekigawa Village, Niigata Prefecture, when the beast invaded their home and went on a rampage within the rest room.
One resident remembers, “hearing a loud scream, and when we went to look, we met a bear.”
The bear was seen on high of the toilet sink, whereas close by chairs and cabinets had been knocked over.
The animal was roughly 95 centimeters lengthy and weighed about 30 kilograms, estimated to be round one and a half years previous, not too long ago separated from its mom.
After the arrival of the searching affiliation later that day on September 16, the bear was captured and launched again into the mountains.
Fortunately, nobody was injured.
According to the prefecture, as a result of this 12 months’s poor harvest of beechnuts, a staple meals for bears, there was a rise in sightings in city areas.
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