Wild elephant dies

Shajid Khan · 30 June 2016 · 8153 views

A wild jumbo of around 15 years old embraced death at Kala river of No. 3 Bholatar under Nonai Reserve Forest near Bamunjali TE on Wednesday night. A team of forest personals along with vetenery doctor carried out post-mortem of the jumbo. Prima-facie evidence suggests food-poisoning to be the cause of death. 3 wild elephants and 6 humans have lost their life for the Man-elephant conflict in the district this year.

Shajid Khan

Recipient of The Annual Colosseum Awards 2014 & 2015 (by The Assam Tribune group), Shajid Khan is an Independent journalist based in Assam. He has contributed numerous political, socio-political stories for bountiful national,international as well as Assam based publications including The New York Times,Firstpost,The Telegraph. He also pens down analytic commentary on print and web based publications.