Three members of a family, including a child, sustained injuries after a polar bear attack in the remote Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, Russian authorities reported Monday.
The incident occurred at a fishing site roughly 40 kilometres from the village of Nosok, located within the Arctic Circle, according to the regional interior ministry’s Telegram statement.
“Three citizens, born in 1983, 2006, and 2015, were injured during the polar bear encounter,” the ministry confirmed. The family was swiftly evacuated and received immediate medical attention. One individual may require hospitalisation, officials said, though the severity of the injuries was not detailed.
Polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare. Experts, however, warn that rising Arctic temperatures and shrinking sea ice are driving polar bears closer to inhabited areas in search of food. Arctic warming has been accelerating at more than double the global rate since 2006, according to a recent NOAA report.
Similar attacks have been reported in recent years across the Arctic region. In August 2024, two polar bears killed a worker at a remote radar station in the Canadian Arctic. Later that year, a man was seriously injured while defending his wife from a polar bear in Northern Ontario. In 2023, a fatal attack in Wales, Alaska, claimed the lives of a woman and her young son, marking the first deadly polar bear incident in the state in three decades.
Authorities have urged residents in Arctic communities to exercise heightened caution as encounters with polar bears increase amid the ongoing climate crisis.
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