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Elephant electrocuted in Jharkhand

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Press Trust of India Jamshedpur
A full grown tusker today died when it came in contact with a high tension live wire at Haildajuri village in East Singhbhum district, Forest officials said.

A herd of wild elephants were passing through under-construction canal when a tall pachyderm came in contact with a live high tension live wire and was electrocuted, said Divisional Forest Officer (Dalbhum), S Alam Ansari said.

Owing to dumping at the construction site, Ansari said the gap between the ground and high tension wire shortened, which led to the incident.

Following the post-mortem, he said forest department officials followed all standard operation procedure before the pachyderm was buried.

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First Published: Aug 14 2017 | 10:07 PM IST

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