MURMANSK, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - A polar bear has injured an explorer at a Russian meteorological station on Franz Joseph Land, in the Arctic. The beast attacked the man Friday night, reports the Arctic Border Control department of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
"The bear wounded one of the explorers in the arm and partially scalped him," a department official said, adding that an air plane had been urgently sent to the polar station from the town of Vorkuta to pick up the injured man and take him to hospital in Murmansk. He is now being treated at the Murmansk's Center Disaster Medicine. Doctors say his condition is not life-threatening.
"He may have tried to take a picture of the bear and came too close to the beast," a colleague told RIA.
