MENTAL health can clearly become an issue when confined for long periods with another person - and perhaps that was behind an incident at a Russian research station in Antarctica.
Two scientists at the Bellingshausen facility on King George Island passed the time by reading mystery novels - a peaceful enough activity, you might think.
However according to a report from the Interfax news agency, the men became embroiled in a confrontation after one of them kept revealing whodunnit to the other before he got to the end.
Sergey Savitsky, 55, has been accused of stabbing his 52-year-old colleague Oleg Beloguzov in the chest, with the older researcher allegedly snapping because "he was fed up with the man telling him the endings of books".
The pair had been working together for the last four years.
The incident is believed to be the first time a person has been charged with attempted murder in Antarctica.
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