Antarctica stabbing: what do we know?

Victim rushed to hospital in Chile after incident in research station 500 miles off coast

Antarctic ice melting has increased rapidly since 2012
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An employee at a remote Russian research station in Antarctica has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing his colleague.

The man, named as Sergey Savitsky, is accused of attacking his colleague on 9 October in the Bellingshausen Station canteen, delivering “at least one blow to the body”, reports Russia's Interfax news agency. The victim, identified in the report by the initial “B”, was rushed to a hospital in Chile.

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