Details emerge on polar bear death: hunters huddled as bears circled

Two injured Inuit hunters huddled for three days with the body of their friend who was killed by a polar bear, while at least four other bears circled their camp.

More details are emerging about Nunavut’s second polar bear death this summer, this one near the community of Naujaat.

The death has sparked widespread outrage among Inuit, many of whom feel their lives are being endangered by restrictions on polar bear hunting imposed on them by southerners.

Naujaat administrator Rob Hedley says the hunters were terrified and didn’t sleep as they waited for search parties to locate them.