Dead tusker towed to Mahanadi river financial institution, not recognized but
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By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The Forest division on Monday managed to tow the grownup tusker’s carcass to Mahanadi river financial institution. Though the carcass was recovered after it washed ashore a sandbar at Satabati close to Jagatpur space of Cuttack on Sunday, forest officers managed to deliver it to the river financial institution after a number of hours of wrestle on the day. As it was already night, the postmortem shall be achieved on Tuesday and the report shall be submitted to the Wildlife headquarters, an official mentioned.
However, it’s but to formally verify if it’s the identical tusker which was stranded within the river at Mundali barrage for practically 20 hours final week. The identification couldn’t be achieved as a result of delay in postmortem, mentioned an official of City Forest Division.
Forest officers, nonetheless, mentioned that they imagine it to be the identical tusker that remained trapped as there was no report of every other elephant getting swept away within the flooded river between Friday and Sunday. Meanwhile, OTV cameraman Prabhat Sinha who was admitted to the ICU after capsizing of the boat throughout the elephant rescue operation was discharged from the SCB Medical College and Hospital on the day. OTV senior journalist Arindam Das and ODRAF’s scuba diver Sitaram Murmu had died within the operation.
