TRAGIC END: villagers noticed that four elephants were dead and the carcasses were floating in the Kabini canal.

2008-11-07 - Bangalore, India , Deepa Balakrishnan

The Karnataka High Court has ordered an inquiry into the increasing number of unnatural elephant deaths in Mysore. On Wednesday four elephants were badly wounded after getting electrocuted near the Kabini canal. Soon some villagers noticed that all the four were dead and the carcasses were floating in the canal. "We come by this canal everyday and suddenly saw these carcasses floating in the canal. We called the police to see what can be done," a villager Siddaraju said.

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