Carcass of elephant found
Dehra Dun, September 7 Carcass of a young male elephant was today recovered from the Najibabad forest area in Uttar Pradesh barely at a distance of 4 km from the Uttarakhand Motadhang area falling in the Lansdowne forest division. The state forest officials found a carcass of the elephant aged between 5 to 6 years from an agriculture field in the Chaturawla village area. Confirming the death of the elephant Uttar Pradesh chief wild life warden B.S. Patnaik disclosed that no physical injury was visible and the cause of death could only be ascertained after the post mortem report.
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