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IVUJIVIK, Quebec, Feb 10, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A Canadian woman this week fought off a polar bear and saved her son and two other children from harm, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday.
Lydia Angiyou, 41, of Ivujivik, a small community on the northern coast of Quebec, says she and her sons encountered the bear Wednesday.
"'My boy, my boy, my boy is going to be killed, nothing I can do,'" she told the CBC, describing what raced through her mind. "But I started yelling and after that I felt better when he was far, the boy was far."
Angiyou said the bear was scared off by gunshots. It later was tracked down and killed.
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