Bear Suspected in 2 Fatal Attacks Years Apart in Hokkaido Killed; DNA Samples Link Cases

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[NHK] In Fukushima Town, Hokkaido, where a man was attacked and killed by a brown bear, the Hokkaido government conducted a DNA test on the bear that was exterminated on the 18th, and found DNA attached to the man's clothing...

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A DNA sample taken from a huge brown bear revealed that it was also responsible for a death four years earlier.

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In an interview with a Hokkaido official on the 19th, it was learned that the DNA type of the brown bear exterminated in Fukushima-cho, Hokkaido, where a male newspaper deliveryman was attacked and killed by a brown bear, matched that of hair found on the man's clothing.