Elephant calf rescued
Published: December 3, 2005
A four-month old wild elephant calf was rescued from a well at a forest range at Dulmi in Jhalda block of Purulia district last night.
The rescued calf has been taken to the zoo at Surulia in Purulia.
Purulia’s Divisional Forest officer Kalyan Das said the baby elephant is now under treatement and would be in the zoo for a few more days.
The baby elephant was moving with a herd of 16-wild elephants and was proceeding to Dalma of Jharkhand when it fell into a well.
A local villager was also trumpled to death when the villagers tried to drive the herd away.
However, the baby was rescued after the pachyderms left the area abandoning it.
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