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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]
An on-site necropsy of Bear 141 revealed human body parts, such as fingers and limbs. The younger bear was consumed by other animals before it could be necropsied. [16] In the 85-year history of Katmai National Park, this was the first known incident of a person being killed by a bear. [16]
It marked the first fatal polar bear attack in 30 years in Alaska, the only U.S. state that is home to the animals. In 2018, a 31-year-old father was killed in a polar bear attack while protecting ...
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 ...
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.
A polar bear killed one and injured four others on 5 August 2011 in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard when it attacked a party of secondary school students with the British Schools Exploring Society who were camped near the Von Post glacier, [38] some 25 miles (40 km) from the settlement of Longyearbyen.
A man who “leapt” onto a polar bear when it lunged at his wife during a rare attack earlier this week was seriously injured but is expected to recover, tribal authorities in Canada said.