A person is recovering in hospital after leaping onto a polar bear to guard his spouse from being mauled in Northern Ontario.
Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, who had been figuring out of the Fort Severn First Nation detachment, say they had been referred to as to a residence early Tuesday morning following stories of gunfire and a potential bear sighting in the identical space.
After they arrived on scene, they discovered a deceased polar bear and realized a person had been taken to a group nursing station to be assessed for accidents.
An investigation revealed a pair exited their house round 5 a.m. to search out their canines and located a polar bear within the driveway of their house.
The bear lunged on the woman and she or he slipped to the bottom as her husband leapt on the animal to stop the assault. The bear then attacked the person, inflicting severe, however non-life-threatening accidents to his legs and arms.
He’s anticipated to get better.
Through the assault, a neighbour arrived with a firearm and shot the bear a number of occasions. It then retreated to a close-by wooded space the place the bear died from its accidents.
Police are persevering with to patrol the realm to make sure no different bears had been roaming the group.
