Pregnant elephant killed, mutilated in Sivasagar

The Telegraph
February 27, 2009

Dibrugarh, Feb. 26: Poachers killed a pregnant elephant near Janokipathar, a small hamlet on the edge of Abhayapur reserve forest in Assam’s Sivasagar district last night. They chopped off and took with them the animal’s tail, tip of the trunk and right ear.
The gory sight of the elephant lying in a pool of blood with the rest of its trunk almost severed moved to tears even the villagers who have been enraged by the rampages of a herd of elephants in the area for the past few days. The female elephant was from the same herd.

Villagers said they heard two gunshots around 9 last night, but did not venture out in the dark.

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