Another Rhino killed in Assam s Orang National Park

Guwahati March 18 (IANS) Poachers have killed yet another one-horned rhino in Orang National Park in Assam officials said on Saturday.

Authorities said that they recovered a carcass of a male rhino near Pichola anti-poaching camp in the park on Friday. The horn of the rhino was missing indicating it to be a case of poaching.

It was a full grown male rhino and there were bullet injury marks the park officials said.

The poaching took place days after police in Assam s Baihata Chariali recovered a blood stained rhino horn from three victims of a fatal road accident on Tuesday.

Assam s forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma said that the three victims killed the rhino somewhere near Kaziranga national park and were trying to decamp while the accident took place.

--IANS
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