Getty Images Europe(MOSCOW) — A pair of scientists on a remote Russian island are besieged in their research station by a group of aggressive, hungry polar bears.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), says that a meteorologist and an engineer are stuck inside the Fyodorov weather station on Vaygach island in the Arctic Ocean, an incredibly remote place.
The researchers have told the charity that the bears have started sleeping near their hut, behaving aggressively and fighting one another over food, which is a bad sign. They tried to scare off the bears with flares but it apparently had no effect.
The researchers normally go outside twice a-day to take readings from the sea but the likelihood of being attacked by a bear means they have not been able to.
The men said they don’t have anything else to try and drive the bears away.
WWF says it is going to ask the Russian government to send help.
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