On suspicion of the bear attack was killed by a son, the police say

Japanese police said an elderly man, who they believed, was killed by a bear, was actually stabbed by his son.

51-year-old Fujiuki Shinda was arrested in the Northern Akita Prefecture on Tuesday for allegedly killing his 93-year-old Fuji’s father, local media reports.

Police sent bears to warning after the victim’s wife found that he had collapsed and bleeding on the floor. But this was removed after the investigators concluded that the wounds were more in line with the knife injury.

Bears’ observation is increasingly found in northern Japan, where population aging and declining agricultural grounds mean that animals are expanding their habitat closer to the human population.

Mr. Shinda, who lived with his parents, initially told the police that he had not noticed anything unusual at home during the attack, Kyodo News reports.

Investigators seized several knives from the family home and tried to identify the murder weapons, Jiji Press reports.

They did not distribute the motive for the murder.

Initially, the bears are guilty of Fugioi Shinda’s death because in Japan there has been an increase in the number of bear attacks in recent years. 12 months before March 2024, the bears were attacked by 219 people – and six of them died, Japan’s Ministry of Environment said.

In July, a newspaper delivery was killed in a residential area.

The approach in meetings with bears also pushed the authorities to relax the hunting law to ease the shooting of the bears.

Thousands of bears were recently trapped and killed by hunters.