Teen adrift in Arctic kills polar bear to survive

CORAL HARBOUR, Nunavut, Canada: Battling hypothermia, a 17-year-old hunter stranded on a floating chunk of ice shot and killed a polar bear while trapped for more than a day before being rescued on Monday in the Canadian Arctic.

The teen and his 67-year-old uncle, who were polar bear hunting, were reported missing late on Saturday, Ed Zebedee, director of the Government of Nunavut's protection services branch, said on Monday.

The snowmobile the pair were riding broke down about 17 km from Coral Harbour, a tiny community on Nunavut's Southampton Island in the northern part of Hudson Bay in Canada's Arctic.