The film Deadly hike Date of 1983, with Isabelle Adjani and Michel Serrault, but he has just been dramatically put back in the news in Japan. A hiker, in his twenties, was attacked by a brown bear while walking on a Mount Rausu path, on the northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, a spokesperson for the local police at AFP.
Before discovering the body, the authorities had first found a portfolio, containing identity documents, a watch, a bloody shirt, a hat as well as traces of blood on trees and the ground, said the Kyodo news agency, citing the police.
1,804 bear captured between April 2023 to March 2024
In this same sector, hunters captured and killed a bear near the path, an employee of the city of Shari told AFP where the attack took place. A DNA analysis must be carried out to determine whether it is the guilty animal of the deadly attack.
The number of brown bear on the island of Hokkaido decreased in 2023 for the first time since 1991, according to the latest estimates published in August. There were around 11,600 at the end of 2023, 500 less than the previous year. The Hokkaido government launched an unprecedented hunt for brown bears, with 1,804 specimens captured from April 2023 to March 2024.
In Japan, meetings between humans and bears have reached a record level, with 219 people attacked and six dead over this same period.
