They kill a polar bear who attacked a tourist guide – 29/07/2018

A tourist guide killed a polar bear in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, in the Arctic Sea. He did it after the animal attacked and wounded another guide . The abused man, aged about 40, is employed by the German company Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and was working on the ship "MS Bremen".

The events occurred on Saturday when the guide accompanying a group of tourists aboard the ship, he landed on the coast. At that time a polar bear attacked it "surprisingly" explained by the tourist company

Another employee who was on the boat killed the animal, said the Commissioner Ole Jakob Malmo, from the island of Spitzberg, where the incident occurred.

The Hapag-Lloyd Cruises Company Referred to What's Happened pbaded as an act of "self-defense." "We are very sorry for this incident," said Moritz Krause, spokesman for the company.

The victim was first transferred by helicopter to the regional capital Longyearbyen and then to Tromsø on the mainland, he added. Their status is stable They declared at Tromsø Hospital

From the tourist company they explained that they had permission "of local authorities" to disembark . "Landings are possible only in certain places (of the archipelago)," Krause

In 40 years, five have been counted deadly attacks of bears. The last took place in 2011 when a bear attacked a group of 14 people who were camping on a trip organized by the Society of British Exploration Schools. A 17-year-old miner died in the attack and four members of the expedition were injured. The bear was killed

Source: AFP

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