Overview
- Senior officer Kenichi Endo, 56, was attacked Tuesday morning around 9:50 during a search in a mountain ravine in Shiwa Town, Iwate.
- A 119 call reported a bear bite, and firefighters arrived to find the officer bleeding from his face and able to speak.
- Hunters accompanying the team killed a 1.3-meter female bear at the scene during the operation.
- Hours later, searchers found a damaged female body several dozen meters from the attack site that police say may be the missing person.
- Seven members of police and a local hunting group were searching for the owner of a car found the prior evening, and they briefly halted the search after a reported cub sighting before resuming.