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Bear mauls young tourists in Japan

In Japan, the body of a university student was found in the mountains of Hokkaido. A brown bear is suspected of committing the murder, The Mainichi explains in more detail.

It is clarified that on November 2, the body of a university student was discovered on Mount Daisengen. Two days later, local police confirmed that it belonged to 22-year-old Kanato Yanaike, who had previously gone missing. It became known that Yanaike told one of his acquaintances that he was going to go mountain climbing. The student’s car was found abandoned at the trailhead on Mt.

According to media reports, the cause of his death was hemorrhagic shock (a critical condition of the body associated with acute blood loss. – Note). Police suspect a wild bear of committing the crime. Not far from where the remains of the climber were found, the carcass of an animal was also found.

It became known that on October 31, in the same area, a wild animal attacked three men and maimed two of them. The men repelled the attack with a knife and drove away the brown bear. Police believe that in both cases we are talking about the same predator.

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