Two elephants electrocuted in India by ‘dangerously low’ hanging wires

Two wild elephants die after being electrocuted by ‘dangerously low’ hanging wires that have been simply TWO FEET off the bottom in Indian village

• Mammals discovered mendacity in paddy discipline in Gurguripal, in West Bengal, jap India
• Herd of a minimum of 80 elephants had been in Nepura village for practically three weeks
• Specialists have criticised state electrical energy board WBSEC for ignoring warnings 

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Dianne Apen-sadler For Mailonline

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10:48 GMT, 19 January 2019

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12:01 GMT, 19 January 2019

Two wild elephants have died after being electrocuted by ‘dangerously low’ hanging wires in India.

The mammals have been discovered mendacity in a paddy discipline in Nepura village in Gurguripal in West Bengal, jap India.

A herd of a minimum of 80 elephants had been roaming across the village for 2 weeks earlier than the elephants got here into contact with the wires, which have been mendacity solely two toes above the bottom, on Saturday morning.

Specialists have criticised the state electrical energy board WBSEC, with one claiming they’d been warned concerning the wire beforehand.

Two elephants have been electrocuted in Gurguripal in West Bengal, jap India, this morning

The animals had wandered into ‘dangerously low’ hanging electrical energy wires in Nepura village

Picutred: native villagers collect to observe the elephants be taken away by a JCB machine

Dr Pradeep Vyas, principal chief conservator of the forest chief wildlife warden, stated: ‘The animals have been there for nearly three weeks and have been vandalising the retailers and homes of native folks and even stealing rice.

‘They even destroyed the paddy discipline and different meals grains. Two of them have been electrified by the excessive rigidity wire, which was mendacity low.

‘We informed WBSEC they need to repair the wire as a result of it was an elephant zone on a number of events.

‘However due to their negligence it occurred many times – final yr one other incident of this sort occurred.’

The animals have been discovered lifeless by native villagers who knowledgeable the forest division – with consultants criticising the state electrical energy board WBSEC.

Rabindranath Saha, Divisional Forest Officer, stated: ‘The our bodies of two full-seized elephants have been discovered mendacity within the paddy discipline at Nepura village below Gurguripal police station space on Saturday morning.

‘It appears they died from electrocution. A few of the high-voltage cables are sagging dangerously low within the space.

‘These may cause loss of life and harm to folks understanding within the discipline as effectively. Now we have knowledgeable the facility division.’

Specialists have criticised the state electrical energy board WBSEC, with one claiming they’d been warned concerning the wire beforehand, and that it had occurred earlier than

Dr Pradeep Vyas, principal chief conservator of the forest chief wildlife warden, stated: ‘We informed WBSEC they need to repair the wire as a result of it was an elephant zone on a number of events. However due to their negligence it occurred many times’

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