April 25, 2024 15:35 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Massive landslide hits Arunachal Pradesh, a large section of Highway-33 washed away | Actress Tamannaah Bhatia summoned by Maharashtra cyber cell in 2023 illegal IPL streaming case | Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's party leader shot dead in Patna | Centre moves Supreme Court seeking modification of 2012 verdict in 2G spectrum case | 'Robert Vadra Ab Ki Baar' posters in Amethi as suspense looms over Congress candidate
Two wild elephants in Assam die in lightning

Two wild elephants in Assam die in lightning

IBNS | @indiablooms | 07 Aug 2018, 09:26 am

Guwahati, Aug 7 (IBNS): Two wild elephants have died when they were struck by lightning  in central Assam’s Hojai district, officials said on Tuesday.

The incident took place at Lankajan Dorjeesheet area in Hojai district along Hojai-West Karbi Anglong border on Monday.

According to the reports, two male wild elephants which had come down from the forest area in search of food  lost lives due to lighting.

Local people had found the bodies of the jumbos at a sugarcane field and immediately informed forest officials.

Later, a forest team of Hojai district reached the spot and made arrangement for conducting post-mortem.

 

Two wild #elephants died in lightning in central #Assam’s Hojai district.

A post shared by IBNS ASSAM (@ibnsassam) on

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

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.