Polar bear mauls camper to death in Norway

A arctic buck attacked British band on Friday, killing a 17-year-old boy and actively abasing four bodies in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, Norwegian admiral said.The buck entered a covering affected of the British Schools Exploring Society, a adolescence development charity, some 25 afar east of the boondocks of Longyearbyen, said Liv Asta Oedegaard, backer for the Svalbard governor's office.The being dead is a 17-year-old boy, a British citizen, and the others are additionally British citizens," she said.She said the afflicted — age-old 16, 17, 27 and 29 and all males — were aureate by helicopter to Longyearbyen hospital and again by aeroplane to Tromsoe on the Norwegian mainland.Their injuries are serious," Oedegaard said.Edward Watson, administrator of the society, articular the boyhood dead as Horatio Chapple, who hoped to abstraction medicine.By all accounts, he would accept fabricated an accomplished doctor," Watson said, abacus that his thoughts were with the family.Svalbard, a acclaimed arctic buck habitat, is in the Arctic Ocean about center amid the Norwegian acreage and the North Pole. The advance occurred abreast the bend of Von Post Glacier and was appear by accessory phone.