India, May 29 -- A 27-year-old mixed martial arts aspirant from Kerala was reportedly killed in a bear attack in a remote uranium exploration site in northern Canada's Saskatchewan.

The man, identified as Hrishikesh Koloth in a CBC Canada news report, died on May 8. According to the report, he had been working as a technician on contract at the Zoo Bay property operated by Vancouver-based UraniumX Discovery Corp. The site lies near Nordbye Lake, about 850 km northeast of Saskatoon.

The black bear fatally injured him while he was at work. A person on site reportedly shot and killed the animal. Authorities later sent the bear for a necropsy at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon. The company confirmed the death of one ...