  A long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) was detected with the instruments on board the
INTEGRAL satellite on January 31 2003. Although most of the GRB, which lasted
$\sim$150 seconds, occurred during a satellite slew, the automatic software of
the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System was able to detect it in near-real time. Here
we report the results obtained with the IBIS instrument, which detected GRB
030131 in the 15 keV - 200 keV energy range, and ESO/VLT observations of its
optical transient. The burst displays a complex time profile with numerous
peaks. The peak spectrum can be described by a single power law with photon
index $\Gamma\simeq$1.7 and has a flux of $\sim$2 photons cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ in
the 20-200 keV energy band. The high sensitivity of IBIS has made it possible
for the first time to perform detailed time-resolved spectroscopy of a GRB with
a fluence of 7$\times10^{-6}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ (20-200 keV).

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