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A tourist guide was injured when a polar bear attacked in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, in the Arctic, before another guide killed him. plantigrade, confirmed Sunday the Norwegian authorities
. Years, employee of the German company Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, was working on the ship "MS Bremen".
The events occurred on Saturday when the guide who accompanied a group of tourists aboard the boat landed at the coast A polar bear attacked it "surprisingly", says the company
another employee who was on the boat killed the animal, Commissioner Ole Jakob Malmo, of the island of Spitzberg, told AFP.
The company Hapag-Lloyd Cruises refers to an act of "legitimate 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. , Tromsø hospital told AFP
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises explained that he had "permission" of local authorities "to disembark, which Malmo confirmed.
"Landings are only possible in certain places (of the archipelago)" In Svalbard, bears live in the wild, so in these excursions, companies must have staff to guarantee protection against possible attacks, "added the company to AFP.
The Svalbard Archipelago It is located about one thousand kilometers from the North Pole and about 800 kilometers from the Continental coasts of Norway According to 2015 data, there would be about a thousand polar bears in this area, a protected species since 1973.
In 40 years, there have been five deadly attacks of 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 United States. attack and four members of the expedition were wounded.The bear was killed
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