A male has actually passed away after a polar bear assaulted an outdoor camping website on Norway’s Svalbard Islands in the middle of the night.
Campsite supervisor Johan Jacobus Kootte, 38, was hurried to healthcare facility in Longyearbyen after the animal targeted the location, which sits more than 500 miles north of the Norwegian mainland, prior to 4am on Friday.
Dutch nationwide Mr Kootte was stated dead by medics right after showing up in healthcare facility, a federal government declaration stated.
A post-mortem will be carried out at the University Hospital of North Norway in Tromsoe, north of the Arctic Circle.
The polar bear was shot by an observer and later on discovered dead in a parking lot by the close-by airport.
No-one else was hurt in the attack, however 6 individuals were confessed to healthcare facility with shock.
The victim was supposedly the 5th individual to be eliminated by a polar bear in the island chain in almost 50 years.
An approximated 25,000 bears reside in the Arctic, while the island chain is house to nearly 3,000 individuals and nearly 1,000 bears, according to the Norwegian authorities.
Deputy guv Soelvi Elvedah stated the awful event was a ‘strong reminder that we are in polar bear country and must take the precautions to secure ourselves’.
He stated: ‘Polar bears can be found all over Svalbard and be encountered anywhere throughout the year.’
The latest casualty was a British teen, 17, who was on a British Schools Exploring exploration when he was assaulted near the Von Postbreen glacier in 2011.
A regional authority site encourages visitors and residents to bring guns with them while leaving settlements, alerting polars bears might be discovered anywhere.
It prompts individuals ‘to stay as far away as possible to avoid situations that could be dangerous for you and for the bear’.
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