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Man stabs colleague at Antarctic base after suffering 'emotional breakdown'
A man has stabbed and injured a colleague at a research station in Antarctica after suffering an apparent emotional breakdown.
Russia's Interfax news agency said the incident at the Bellingshausen station on King George Island on 9 October had resulted from "tensions in a confined space".
The victim, a researcher, was flown to a hospital in Chile - the nearest country to the remote base.
Interfax said the assailant, also a researcher, voluntarily surrendered to the station chief and was placed under house arrest.
The Pravda news agency named the attacker as Sergei Savitsky and the victim as Oleg Beloguzov.
It reported that Savitsky stabbed his co-worker in the chest in the base's dining room.
Continued:
https://news.sky.com/story/man-stab...tional-breakdown-11533893?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
A man has stabbed and injured a colleague at a research station in Antarctica after suffering an apparent emotional breakdown.
Russia's Interfax news agency said the incident at the Bellingshausen station on King George Island on 9 October had resulted from "tensions in a confined space".
The victim, a researcher, was flown to a hospital in Chile - the nearest country to the remote base.
Interfax said the assailant, also a researcher, voluntarily surrendered to the station chief and was placed under house arrest.
The Pravda news agency named the attacker as Sergei Savitsky and the victim as Oleg Beloguzov.
It reported that Savitsky stabbed his co-worker in the chest in the base's dining room.
Continued:
https://news.sky.com/story/man-stab...tional-breakdown-11533893?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
Rumours on Twitter suggest that a unknown husky was taken into the base the previous day and all contact has subsequently been lost...
That last part may not be true.