A bear assaulted nine people, most of them tourists, Sept. 19 at a bus terminal at the end of the Norikura Skyline road in the mountains of Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, seriously wounding four men, police said.

The rest of the group was slightly injured, the police and fire department headquarters in Takayama said.

A 66-year-old man from Yokohama was seriously injured while a 51-year-old woman from a Nagano Prefecture tourism company sustained slight injuries. The rest include workers at a local lodging facility, the police said.

Other tourists at the scene during the attack at around 2:30 p.m. escaped injury.

The 1.3-meter-long bear entered the terminal building after attacking tourists on a nearby mountain and at the bus terminal, which is 2,702 meters above sea level, police said.

Employees at the terminal eventually trapped the bear inside a souvenir shop, where hunters later shot it dead.