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[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]
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]
Polar bears, particularly starving males, will hunt humans for food, though attacks on humans by female bears are rare. 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 ...
A pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote government radar site in the Canadian Arctic, the facility's operator said, marking at least the second fatal polar bear attack since ...
Polar bears rarely attack humans, but sometimes move inland to search for food [Reuters] A man in Canada's far north leapt on to a polar bear to protect his wife from being mauled, police say.
A 2017 study that surveyed more than a century of conflict between humans and polar bears documented 73 incidents across the animal’s range, including 20 that were fatal, in frozen seas and ...
Screenshot. Rune Knudsen is a Norwegian biologist and the protagonist living at the American exploratory oil facility/research station Alpha Polaris in Greenland.Among the crew is Al Schaumann, the leader of the station, Tully Crean, a coarse and somewhat obnoxious handyman, Alistair Euler, the arrogant son of the company's CEO who arrives for a sudden unscheduled inspection and Nova whom Rune ...
Two polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote radar station in the Canadian Arctic, the facility's operator said. The attack happened Thursday at one of Nasittuq Corporation's work ...