Group's camp was surrounded by faulty tripwire
(NEWSER) - The mauling victims of a starving polar bear have been airlifted from Norway to Britain for treatment. The bear killed a teenager on a Norway science trip before a team leader managed to kill the animal with a gun that jammed four times. The adult leader, a co-worker, and two other teenagers are all being treated for significant wounds from the marauding animal, which tore through their tent on the Von Postbreen glacier in Svalbard, according to the Guardian . One of the surviving teens punched the bear on the nose even as the animal held his head in his jaws, reports the Mirror . More»
