Japan has been gripped by series of bear attacks with four people mauled – and in some cases eaten – in less than a month.
They were men aged between 65 and 79 who died while harvesting bamboo shoots in a mountain forest in the Akita prefecture on Japan’s largest island of Honshu. The woman, 74, was allegedly picking wild plants before she was attacked.
Hideki Abe, an Akita prefectural official, said that when they examined the body of the bear, “a piece of human flesh” and hair were found in the stomach.
“Two-thirds of the stomach was filled with bamboo shoots,” he said, which indicates that the bear did not consume much of her body and more than one bear may have been involved.
No black Asian bears have yet been captured by traps set up on Friday in Kazuno city. There were only eight fatal bear attacks in the region from 1979 until 2015, which makes the succession of deaths unusual.
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