Elephant found dead in Cox's Bazar forest

Elephant found dead in Cox’s Bazar forest
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The decomposed body of an elephant was found in a forest in Cox's Bazar.
The corpse of the elephant, aged around 60, was found at the mouth of Monkhali canal in Thoinga Jora area of Shamlapur beat under Huyaikkong range of Cox's Bazar South Forest Division on March 13, reports our staff correspondent quoting Humayun Kabir, divisional forest officer of Cox's Bazar South Forest Division.
Forest officials, who buried it on March 14, said that it had died of old age complications.
Dr Md Shawkat Ali, Teknaf upazila livestock officer who had conducted autopsy on the animal, told The Daily Star that the female elephant "could have died of old-age complications and its body bore no injury marks."

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