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Experts said it was unusual for someone to be attacked repeatedly by the same bear over a period of time.
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The victim, who has not been identified, had just two rounds of ammunition left, and had suffered injuries to his leg and torso, when he was spotted by a Coast Guard helicopter.
He crawled towards the helicopter, waving a white flag in the air.
The encounter was reminiscent of a scene in The Revenant, in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s fur trapper character is mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead in the wild.
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