In a disheartening incident, an elephant with burn marks was seen being dragged through a West Bengal village after it was electrocuted. The elephant which accidentally touched the electric fence around rice fields in Debi Simul village leading to death. Although forest officials tried to save the animal the elephant had died by then. As nothing else could lift an elephant a pickup truck lifted the body and dragged it through the lanes of the village. The body was then sent to postmortem to determine the exact cause of its death.
Daily Mail quoted Shri Haris, a senior forest official as saying, “There are no external injuries but we have seen some burn marks on the trunk. ‘The initial reports suggest that the elephant has died of electrocution but the exact cause of the death can be confirmed only after a postmortem.” A police complaint was filed against the owners of the land where the animal was found dead. As elephants have destroyed farms and harvest many farm owners placed illegal electric fencing by tapping electricity from cables to trap the animals.
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