Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Elephant found dead

Dehra Dun, Jan 12 (PTI) Carcass of a female elephant was found in Chilla range of Rajaji Park near here, the park officials said.

The body of the 42-year-old elephant was noticed by park guards during a routine patrolling yesterday. A postmortem of the pachyderm has revealed that it died due to an injury in its neck, they said.

In Uttarakhand, bodies of four elephants have been recovered in the past five days. On January seven, a tusk-less male elephant was killed in a fight with a tusker in Kotdwar area.

Another tusker was also killed in a similar incident on the following day. Then on January 9, a calf elephant died of pneumonia in Kotdwar area.

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