Man seriously injured while saving wife from polar bear attack in driveway, police say [Video]

(TMX) – A man was seriously injured fighting off a polar bear that attacked his wife in Canada on Tuesday, and the animal was fatally shot by a neighbor, police said.

The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service said officers working in the Fort Severn First Nation detachment responded to a report of gunfire at a residential address in Fort Severn, on the northern coast of Ontario, early Tuesday. Police had also been made aware of a possible bear sighting in the area.

Officers arrived to find a deceased polar bear, and learned a man had been transported to the community nursing station with injuries.

Investigators learned a man and woman left their home before 5 a.m. to find their dogs. In their driveway, a polar bear “lunged” at the woman, police said, and her husband “leapt onto the animal” to halt the attack. The bear instead turned its attention to the man, …