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Assam forest department arrests five poachers
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Assam forest department arrests five poachers

| | 14 Jul 2017, 09:35 pm
Guwahati, July 14 (IBNS): Assam forest department personnel on Friday morning arrested five poachers and recovered several parts of wild animals in lower Assam’s Barpeta district, officials said.

A top official of the state forest department said that, following a tip-off, the personnel of Panbari forest range under Manas National Park arrested the poacher gang near the park.

The forest personnel also recovered one skin a panther tiger, 157 pieces of tiger bones and one handmade gun in possession from them.

The arrested poachers were identified as Sunil Bodo, Sanjiv Basumutary, Ranjan Daimary, Bonaru Bodo and Badu Bodo.

“During the preliminary interrogation, the poachers confessed that, they had killed a tiger inside the national park on April 25 last,” the forest official said.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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