Italy captures killer bear amid debate on her fate
By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — Authorities in northern Italy have captured a bear that fatally mauled a runner and became the focus of a battle over what to do with Italy’s growing brown bear population. Officials in Trento announced Tuesday that the female bear, Jj4, had been captured overnight. Andrea Papi was killed while out on a mountain training run between April 5-6. The Trento provincial authorities ordered the bear killed, but after a legal appeal, a court suspended the order on April 11. In the past two decades, bear numbers in Italy have bounced back from near-disappearance, but the animals are now increasingly encountering the human population.
