 An Antarctic researcher at a remote Russian science station has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing his colleague in a sudden outburst of violence.  This article is over 2 months old 
 
 Suspect placed under house arrest after alleged attack at Bellingshausen station on King George Island 
 
 A researcher at Russia’s Antarctic station has allegedly stabbed and injured a colleague, possibly after an emotional breakdown, the Interfax news agency has reported. The two men had been living and working together for six months at Russia’s Bellingshausen station on King George Island, more than 500 miles off the southern coast of Argentina. The alleged attack occurred on 9 October in the canteen of Bellingshausen station on King George Island, the agency said on Tuesday. “According to the investigation, on October 9 in the dining room of the command of the Russian Antarctic station Bellingshausen, located on King George Island, to kill B using a knife as a weapon, Savitsky deliberately struck B at least one blow to the body,” it reported. A source with knowledge of the incident told Interfax, Savitsky "surrendered on his own and without resistance to the station manager," and also "did not object to house arrest." The news agency separately reported in court proceedings that a man named Sergey Savitsky had been placed under house arrest until 8 December, charged with attempted murder at the station. Russian authorities have not yet commented on the attack, The Guardian reported. The Bellingshausen research station was set up by the Soviet Union in 1968 and is named after a 19th-century Russian Antarctic explorer, Interfax also reported. Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, South Korea and Poland also maintain permanent stations on King George Island.
– A researcher at Russia's remote Bellingshausen station allegedly stabbed a colleague earlier this month, the Guardian reports, citing the Russian-language Interfax news agency. Investigators say that the researcher, identified as Sergey Savitsky, wielded a knife on Oct. 9 and "deliberately struck [his colleague] at least one blow to the body" in the station's dining room. The injured man has been hospitalized in Chile, while Savitsky is on house arrest facing an attempted murder charge, per Business Insider Nordic. Bellingshausen station is located in the Antarctic on King George Island, some 500 miles from Argentina, according to Newsweek. A source tells Interfax that Savitsky may have snapped after living in such close quarters for such a long time (reportedly more than six months), per Business Insider. Some 30 countries have research teams in Antarctica, per Newsweek, which notes that investigating crimes there can be tricky since, based on a 1961 treaty, no country has a claim on the continent. (NASA captured an image of an unusual iceberg.)