Polar bear attacks solar-eclipse spotters on Arctic island

A polar bear dragged a Czech tourist out of his tent as he slept on a remote Arctic island, clawing his back before being driven away by gunshots.

Polar bear attacks solar-eclipse spotters on Arctic island

A polar bear dragged a Czech tourist out of his tent as he slept on a remote Arctic island, clawing his back before being driven away by gunshots.

"It was going for my head. I used my hands to protect my head," Jakub Moravec told the Associated Press from his hospital bed in the Svalbard archipelago's main town.

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