 Around the World: Russia
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-23 07:30 Bears trap geologists At least 30 hungry bears have trapped a group of geologists at their remote survey site in Russia's far east after killing two of their co-workers last week, emergency officials said yesterday. The team of geologists on Russia's seismically active Kamchatka peninsula refused to leave their camp after the bears showed up, a press spokesman for the Kamchatka emergency services ministry said. A bear killed two geologists at the worksite on July 18. Officials on Kamchatka, nine time zones east of Moscow on the Pacific Ocean, said this year was remarkable for either too many bears or not enough fish. (China Daily 07/23/2008 page12) |
