A polar bear killed a woman and a boy after chasing residents in Alaska town | CNN
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A woman and boy were killed by a polar bear that had been chasing residents in a tiny, remote community in Alaska, state troopers said Tuesday.
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A woman and boy were killed by a polar bear that had been chasing residents in a tiny, remote community in Alaska, state troopers said Tuesday.

    The victims have been identified as Summer Myomick, 24, and her 1-year-old son, Clyde Ongtowasruk, Austin McDaniel, communications director for the Alaska Department of Public Safety, said in a statement Wednesday.

    Troopers and Alaska Department of Fish and Game personnel have been working to travel to Wales following the attack, but have been waylaid by weather.

    Reports of polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, a 2017 study published by The Wildlife Society found.

    “From 1870-2014, we documented 73 attacks by wild polar bears, distributed among the 5 polar bear Range States (Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia, and United States), which resulted in 20 human fatalities and 63 human injuries,” it found.

    The last one was in 2013, according to the Reuters news agency, and there hadn’t been a fatal attack since the early 1980s, CNN reported in 2021.

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  • Fubber Nuckin'@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    So what you’re telling me is there were 10 people who died without being injured? Fascinating.

    Edit: at least 10 people. Some of the attacks could’ve resulted in multiple injuries.