Polar bear kills mother and son in Alaska

Residents of a small village in Alaska shot and killed a polar bear earlier this week after it mauled a mother and her one-year-old son to death. Photo from Trance Drumer Shutterstock/UPI file

Jan. 18 (UPI) — Authorities said a polar bear mauled a mother and her one-year-old son to death before being fatally shot by residents of a small Alaskan village earlier this week.

The Alaska Department of Public Safety reports. statement that the attack took place on Tuesday at 14:30 in the city of Wales, where he lives about 170 people on the western coast of Alaska in the Bering Strait.

According to preliminary information, the bear entered the community and pursued several residents, and then attacked the mother and her child as they walked between the school and the clinic.

Authorities identified the victims as 24-year-old Summer Myomic of St. Michael and her son, Clyde Ongtowasruk. According to them, the next of kin were notified.

The remains of the victims were flown Wednesday to the state medical examiner’s office for autopsy due to bad weather that prevented state troops and a representative from the Alaska Department of Fish and Wildlife from traveling to the remote city, the report said.

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Wildlife Web sitepolar bear populations have been declining since the early 1970s, and as of 2015, about 900 bears of the southern Beaufort Sea population remain. However, the number of bears in the Bering Sea area is unknown, the report said.

The animal is under threat due to thinning ice and longer summers, which has shortened the length of the bear hunting season, he said.

Although documented cases of polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, 2017 study published by the Wildlife Society found that “nutritionally stressed adult male polar bears are the most likely to pose a threat to human safety” and that increased concern for human safety is warranted as habitat loss on sea ice forces the animal to spend more dry time. and in close proximity to people.

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