It is believed that the bear attacked and killed a 60-year-old man from Missouri, who was delighted with local officials in the camp in the national forest of the Ozark in Arkansas.
The men of the man called the police in the Newtown district after they did not hear from their father during his trip to the camping of Sam for a couple of days, Sheriff Glenn Wieler said.
The police discovered that the human body in a few yards near the campsite, which had injuries similar to injuries, from a “big attack for a carnivorous animal,” said the Sheriff’s office.
The bear is suspected that he attacked a man, was caught and killed.
Officials have not yet published the name of the 60-year-old victim.
In his statement on Sunday, Sheriff Wiler said that the bear considered him responsible for the attack after he was caught on a camera in a campsite earlier that day.
Local hunters were called and brought the hounds, who began to follow the bear, and shortly after that they could not give in.
The remains of the bear will be necropsimi, and other testing, including an attempt to get DNA samples in order to correspond to the victim, will also be completed.
“To be 100 % confident, we will have to wait for possible DNA matches, but all the signs are that this is a bear responsible for the fatal attack,” the sheriff said.
“This is a relief for me and communities, and I thank God for this result. It was a dangerous bear. “
The camp is currently closed.
Officials said that this man sent his family photograph of the bear on the site of his camp, helping them identify the animal – a young man who corresponded to the size of a bear photographed and has the same coloring of the face.
Arkansas is a house for more than 5,000 black bears, the only type of bear in the state.
Bear attacks, especially fatal ones, are not common in North America.
From 1900 to 2009, 63 people died from the Black Bear attack in North America, according to a study in the journal “Diches of Wildlife”.
