A polar bear attacked and killed two people in western Alaska.
According to initial reports, the animal initially chased several people in Wales and then fatally injured a woman and a youth, according to a police statement on Tuesday (local time).
A local resident finally shot the bear.
Further details were not initially known.
Officials from the police and authorities wanted to travel to the area on the west coast of the American state "as soon as the weather conditions permit," it said.
According to the Anchorage Daily News, such attacks are extremely rare in the northern state.
In 1990, a polar bear killed a man in the town of Point Lay, about 500 kilometers north of Wales.
In 1993, an animal broke through a window into an Air Force radar station and seriously injured a 55-year-old.
Due to the melting sea ice in the course of the climate crisis, the animals are increasingly staying on the mainland, making encounters with humans more likely.