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Mother puts herself between polar bear and children

by Yukonkev | February 10, 2006
"My boy, my boy, my boy is going to be killed, nothing I can do, but I started yelling and after that I felt better when he was far, the boy was far"
- Lydia Angiyou, boy's mother

Ivujivik, Quebec - A woman from the northern Quebec community of Ivujivik was shaken and scared, but otherwise safe, after facing down a polar bear in order to save her children.

Angiyou's son and the two other boys were unharmed.

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