Forest officials recover five elephant tusks

inaki Das, Daily India
December 23, 2006
Agartala, Dec.23 (ANI): Forest officials in Tripura are concerned over the increase in elephant poaching cases.
In one such case, five elephant tusks weighing over five kilograms were recovered from three poachers.
Acting on a tip off, Agartala Police set a trap and nabbed the poachers who were attempting to smuggle the tusks to Bangladesh.
According to official estimates, there are around fifty elephants left in Tripura, suggesting a steep decline in their population.
Tripura forest officials suspect the hand of extremists in such incidents, as this would fetch them a large amount of money.

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