Five rhino poachers nabbed near Kaziranga National Park
Guwahati, Feb 7 (IBNS): The Assam police arrested five rhino poachers in central Assam’s Nagaon district on Tuesday, who were planning to poach rhino inside the World Heritage site Kaziranga National Park, officials said.
Police also recovered one 303 rifle, 18 rounds live ammunition in possession from them.
According to the reports, based on intelligence input, Jakhalabandha police in Nagaon district launched the operation at Harmoti area and arrested the poacher gang.
Officer-in-Charge of Jakhalabandha police station Deben Bora said that, the poacher gang had planned to kill rhino inside the national park under Bagori range office.
Following a tip-off, a team of Jakhalabandha police station launched the operation at Harmoti area near Bagori and arrested a poacher Faruq Ahmed who was travelling on a vehicle.
Later police arrested four more poachers of the gang who were planning to kill the rhino in Kaziranga.
Police recovered one 303 rifle, 18 rounds live ammunition and a silencer in possession from the arrested poachers.
The arrested poachers were identified as Faruq Ahmed, Foorkan Ali, Mustafa Ahmed, Padda Rajput, Gulzar Hussain.
Police have interrogated the poachers to collect more information.
Poachers have killed over 200 one horned rhinos in Kaziranga National Park in the past decade.
This year, two rhinos have been poached inside the national park so far.
Kaziranga National Park is home to more than 80 per cent of India’s rhinos and over 91 per cent of Assam’s count.
According to the 2015 population census, 2401 rhinos are present in Kaziranga.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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