Report sought on captive elephant death The male jumbo was gored to death by two wild tuskers at Palamau Fort late on Monday night in the presence of nearly 10 forest guards
The Latehar district administration in Jharkhand has asked officials of the Palamau Tiger Reserve under Betla National Park to submit a report at the earliest on the lapses that led to the killing of a captive 40-year-old male elephant by two wild tuskers.
This was the first such incident of a captive elephant being killed by wild tuskers and that too in the presence of a large number of forest guards.
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