Polar bear shot dead after wounding cruise ship worker

A polar bear was shot dead after attacking a German cruise ship worker on Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, the authorities said Sunday. "The bear was killed by another employee on the boat," police commissioner Ole Jakob Malmo told AFP. Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said it was "self-defence".

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