Another elephant goes down to human callousness

Kumar Sarkar, MeriNews
July 23, 2008

PACHYDERMS IN North Bengal are being killed ruthlessly either by villagers or by the callousness of train drivers. A week ago three elephants were poisoned to death inside the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary in North Bengal. An elephant calf was run over by a train in the same sanctuary on Tuesday. The calf was run over in the Gulma range area of the sanctuary by the Guwahati-Jhaja Express. The calf was seven year-old.

The accident occurred in the wee hours of the morning. The poisoning and running over by a train apart, at least three elephants were shot dead by soldiers of the Nepalese Army last month when the pachyderms strayed into Nepal. Elephants are known to stray into the neighbouring country in search of food.

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