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USA, Wales, Alaska — Myomick was attacked and killed by a polar bear in the small village of Wales, Alaska. The attack happened at 2:30 pm. The polar bear had chased several residents of the community, before it killed the woman and her 1-year-old son. The bear was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair. [46] [47]
[2] 17-year-old Horatio Chapple, a former pupil of Eton College, was killed in the attack. [3] Four others were hurt, three seriously, and all were flown to Tromsø on mainland Norway for treatment. [4] The bear was shot dead by one of the expedition's leaders, Michael "Spike" Reid, who himself suffered severe head and facial injuries. [5]
In 1990, a polar bear killed a man farther north of Wales in the village of Point Lay. Biologists later said the animal showed signs of starvation, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Polar bear attacks on humans are rare but the incident marks at least the second fatality since 2023. Last year, a polar bear emerged from the impenetrable snow squall and killed a woman and her ...
The bear attacked the woman, pinning her to the ground. Her husband leapt on top of the animal to save her from what is a rare attack, the Nishnawbe Aski police service said in a news release.
The earliest recorded account of a polar bear attack was written in 1595. It described a predatory attack on two people from Willem Barentsz's crew in the Russian Arctic. Between 1870 and 2014, out of 73 recorded polar bear attacks there were 20 human fatalities and 69 injuries.
A polar bear fatally attacked two people in a remote village in Alaska.
From 1870 to 2014, there were an estimated 73 polar bear attacks on humans, which led to 20 deaths. The majority of attacks were by hungry males, typically subadults, while female attacks were usually in defence of the young. In comparison to brown and American black bears, attacks by polar bears were more often near and around where humans lived.