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A researcher stationed at an Antarctica has been reported to have suffered from an apparent emotional breakdown, reports say.
Russia's Pravda news agency reported that the victim of the Oct. 9 incident was flown to a hospital in Chile – the nearest country to the Bellingshausen station on King George Island.
His co-worker, also a researcher, voluntarily surrendered to the station chief.
According to reports, the incident was triggered by "tensions in a confined space."
Sergei Savitsky stabbed his co-worker Oleg Beloguzov in the chest while they were in the base dining room, Pravda reported.
Savitsky was flown to St. Petersburg and was arrested at the airport. He was involved with attempted murder.
On Oct. 22, Savitsky was reportedly put on house arrest.
The Bellingshausen Station, named after 19th-century Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, was founded by the Soviet Union in 1986.
