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The bear after being sedated and captured in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture.
A bear that roamed the streets of a Japanese city for four days, forcing mass school closures, has been caught, capping a search involving dozens of hunters and police.
Terrified families in the city of Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, peered through windows as a search mission that included helicopters tried to track down the animal following multiple sightings, including in a shopping arcade, at a university and at a wholesale market.
On Tuesday (local time) dozens of police officers, hunters and city officials surrounded a private home where the bear was spotted, an AFP photographer witnessed.
