The bear had chased residents after entering the western Alaska town of Wales before attacking the woman and boy, an Alaska State Troopers dispatch report said.
polar bearThe bear had chased residents after entering the western Alaska town of Wales before attacking the woman and boy, anThe bear was shot and killed by another resident as it attacked the two victims, according to the report.
“Troopers and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are working to travel to Wales as weather conditions allow,” the report said.. The identities of the victims were not immediately released as next of kin were still being notified, police said.found. “From 1870-2014, we documented 73 attacks by wild polar bears, distributed among the 5 polar bear Range States , which resulted in 20 human fatalities and 63 human injuries,” it found.
But melting ice due to climate change has led to a corresponding change in bear behavior and made human encounters with bears more likely, CNNResidents of Churchill in northern Manitoba, Canada, sometimes called the “polar bear capital of the world,” told CNN in 2021 that bear encounters were becoming more common. Thousands of tourists visit each fall in hopes of catching a
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