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Elephant tusk seized, 2 held

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Press Trust of India Tezpur (Assam)
Forest guards seized an elephant tusk from Borgang under Biswanath police station and arrested two persons carrying it, forest officials said here today.

The two persons, suspected to be poachers, were carrying the tusk from Daflagarh near Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border to sell it in Tezpur, Kaziranga National Park Northern Range Officer Pranjal Baruah said.

They were arrested by a team of forest guards of Kaziranga National Park last night.

Baruah said that the tusk weighed about 8.5 kg and was worth around Rs 3.5 lakh.

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First Published: Apr 26 2017 | 8:48 PM IST

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