A brown bear was shot dead today after injuring four people while rampaging through a Japanese city and attacking soldiers at a barracks.

NBC News reports the bear was seen wandering through the streets of Sapporo in the early hours of Friday, triggering several calls to police. Over the next eight hours, Hokkaido prefectural police said the bear injured a woman in her 80s, a man in his 70s and a man in his 40s before attacking a soldier.