Rogue elephant dies after killing seven
Rourkela: A rogue elephant, which had triggered panic having killed seven
people in the interior parts of Odisha’s Sundargarh district, died this
afternoon on a hill top where it was kept tied after getting tranquillized,
official sources said.
Arjun Behera,
divisional forest officer (DFO) of Sundargarh said the jumbo died despite all
efforts to save it. “It is really tragic because the expert team from
Nandankanan did its level best to save it. But unfortunately, it all went in
vain”, he said.
The male
pachyderm had fallen sick after being tranquilized by a team of experts on
January 7. It had recovered a little yesterday, officials said.
Before being
tranquilized, it had killed seven persons since the night of December 25.
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