A polar bear attacked a man camping in Norway's Arctic
Svalbard region Thursday, authorities said, injuring his face and arm.
The man was one of six people who were on a combined ski and
snowmobile trip in the Svalbard archipelago, the local governor's office said
on its website.
The other people in the group shot the polar bear dead and
the injured man was flown by helicopter to Longyearbyen hospital, the
governor's office said.
The attack occurred in Fredheim, in Tempelfjorden, it said.
An investigation is underway.
It's not the first time tourists and polar bears have come
into conflict in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago.
In 2011, a British schoolboy was killed when a polar bear
attacked a school group that was camping near the Von Postbreen glacier.
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