A polar bear attacked and killed two people on Tuesday in Wales, a remote village in western Alaska. The animal would initially have hunted several people, a woman and a boy could not escape. A local resident eventually managed to shoot the bear.
Officials plan to travel to Alaska’s west coast “as soon as weather conditions permit” and conduct further investigations, officials said Tuesday.
According to the newspaper “Anchorage Daily News”, such attacks are extremely rare in the northern US state: in 1990, a polar bear killed a man in the town of Point Lay, about 500 kilometers north of Wales. In 1993, an animal broke through a window at an Air Force radar station, seriously injuring a 55-year-old.
Melting sea ice due to climate change is increasingly keeping animals on the mainland, making encounters with humans more likely.
Source: Krone
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