Forest Department rules out any foul play
A strong negative lightning flash with a peak current of 39,000 amperes at 9.28 p.m. killed the 18 elephants in Kandali Proposed Reserve Forest in central Assam’s Nagaon district on May 13, an autopsy report has concluded.
Making the exhaustive report public on Thursday, Assam Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya ruled out any foul play such as a conscious attempt of electrocution, revenge killing, poisoning.
The report prepared by the North Eastern Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (NERDDL) in Guwahati with meteorological inputs from the North East Satellite Application Centre at Umiam in Meghalaya also negated any anthrax outbreak.
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Meanwhile, an FIR was filed on Thursday holding some senior forest officials and a power company responsible for the alleged choking of the elephant corridor at the site of the incident.
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A herd of Asiatic wild elephants in search of food at Deepor Beel Wild Life Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati. (File photo | PTI)
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GUWAHATI: The Assam government has ruled out any foul play, such as a conscious attempt of electrocution, revenge killing, poisoning, anthrax outbreak etc, in the deaths of 18 elephants at the Kundali hills in Nagaon district last month.
Care play. 6 May 2021
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