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Canadian teenager survives on ice floe with polar bears
Nov 10, 2009, 8:25 GMT
Toronto - A Canadian teenager was rescued Monday after being trapped on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea with a polar bear and her two cubs.
The 17-year-old had been out hunting with his uncle when they became separated Saturday and he was set adrift on a large chunk of ice.
Also trapped on the floe were the three bears. The teen, who was armed with a rifle, had to shoot the mother bear in self-defence, officials said.
He survived one day and one night on the ice with temperatures dropping as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius, before being picked up by a search helicopter, having drifted about 45 kilometres into the open sea.
He was taken to hospital to receive treatment for hypothermia and frostbite.
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