A polar bear has mauled a camper who was inside his tent to death at a Svalbard campsite, in the early hours of the morning.
The man, who is yet to be named, was killed in a camping area near the town of Longyearbyen, officials have said. The man was badly injured in the attack just before 4am and died later in hospital and the animal was found dead in a car park.
People nearby shot at the bear who was later found in a car park near the airport, located in Svalbard, a Norwegian territory archipelago in the High Arctic, about 800 miles from the North Pole.
No others were injured, but the governor’s office confirmed six people who were on the site have been taken to the hospital.
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