December 25, 2024 07:03 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane enroute to Russia with over 70 people onboard crashes in Kazakhstan | Atishi will be arrested in fake case, claims Arvind Kejriwal after Delhi govt disowns health and women's schemes | Delhi govt departments disown Arvind Kejriwal's major poll promises, AAP chief reacts | 'Our nation will always be grateful to him': PM Modi writes article in tribute to Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birth centenary | Syria: Christmas tree set on fire by suspected 'Islamists', Christians protest | Pakistan strikes TTP camps in Afghanistan, Taliban government claims civilians killed | Former home secy Ajay Kumar Bhalla appointed Manipur Guv amid ethnic violence resurgence | Five soldiers killed, several injured as Army truck falls into Poonch gorge | Allu Arjun quizzed by police in Pushpa 2 stampede case | Wanted Indian drug smuggler killed in the US

Three rhino poachers killed in Kaziranga

| | Apr 29, 2015, at 06:50 pm
Guwahati, Apr 29 (IBNS) : Three rhino poachers were killed in Assam's Kaziranga National Park (KNP) on Tuesday night, officials said on Wednesday.

Following a tip-off, forest guards of the park had launched an operation inside it under Agoratoli forest range where three poachers were killed during gun fight with forest guards.

"We informed that, a poacher group entered inside the national park for killing rhino. The poacher group had sheltered near the Nalani and Duramari forest camp. When forest guards reached the area poachers had started fire and exchanging bullets in which three poachers killed on spot, " a park official said.

Forest guards recovered two 303 rifles, one silencer near the slain poachers.

Poachers had killed at least ten one horned rhinoceros in the state this year so far including eight rhinos alone in Kaziranga.

Assam forest minister Atuwa Munda had given instructions to the forest officials to take stern action against poachers.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.