A bear entered a home in Gunma Prefecture early Friday morning and seriously injured an elderly couple.
A woman in her 70s from the city of Annaka called emergency services around 20 minutes after midnight and reported that a bear had entered the house and bit her husband, police said.
The couple were sleeping on the first floor of a two-storey house when the man, also in his 70s, heard a noise outside and opened a window to investigate. The bear, about three feet long, attacked the couple before leaving the scene immediately afterwards.
The man suffered lacerations to the head, while the woman suffered a broken arm. Both are not in a life-threatening condition and are expected to recover in about three months.
Their son, who was on the second floor at the time, was not injured.
Translated by The Japan Times
