Elderly Men Injured in Bear Attacks in Tochigi Pref.

Elderly Men Injured in Bear Attacks in Tochigi Pref.

NASUSHIOBARA, Tochigi – An 85-year-old man was bitten on his rear by a bear while tending to his garden at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. The man sustained minor injuries, with bite marks on his buttocks. According to the Nasushiobara Police Station, the bear is estimated to be about one meter tall.

Bear mauls 3 men to death in MP's Sidhi district; animal killed by irate villagers, probe on

Sidhi (MP), Jul 7 (PTI) A bear killed three men and wounded two others before the animal was beaten to death by angry local residents at a village near Sanjay Gandhi Tiger Reserve in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, police said. A police officer said the incident took place around day break in a thicket near Bastua village, 65km from the district headquarters. When contacted over phone, Marwas police station house officer (SHO) Bhoope…