Nine deer die after eating plastic bags at famed park in Japan

Save the deer: A volunteer picking up plastic products during the clean-up campaign at the park in Nara, western Japan, as a deer watches in waiting. — AP

TOKYO: Nine deer at a famed park in western Japan have died recently after swallowing plastic bags.

Nara Park has more than 1,000 deer, and tourists can feed them special sugar-free crackers sold in shops nearby.