4 injured in bear attacks in northeast Japan, all conscious

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Four people were attacked and injured by a bear in northeast Japan on Tuesday, with all sent to the hospital and conscious, according to the local police and fire department.

At around 6:30 a.m., the fire department received a call from a steel manufacturing company in the city of Fukushima, reporting that a bear had attacked two male employees, one in his 20s and the other in his 60s. The bear then escaped into a neighboring residential area, where it attacked a woman in her 80s at a house and a man in his 60s at a different office building.