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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Suspected rhino poachers killed in Baihata mishap
Correspondent :
Guwahati/Rangia, March 14: Three suspected rhino poachers were killed when the Guwahati-bound Maruti Alto car in which they were travelling collided head on with a bus on National Highway 31 at BaihataChariali in Kamrup district on early Tuesday morning.

Police suspect that the deceased were poachers following recovery of a rhino horn, which has blood stains, butt of a country-made gun and some white powder-like substance from their possession. They have been identified as Lammin Lal, Jacob DouthongSingson and Jacob Tluanga. All three were from Manipur and a case has been registered in this regard. A probe is being conducted whether the deceased were actually rhino poachers or carrying the horn for the purpose of trade.

Sources told The Sentinel that when the police reached the accident site, two of them were already dead. The police took the other two passengers to a nearby hospital immediately. While one of them succumbed to his injuries in the hospital, the other is struggling for life at Gauhati Medical College & Hospital. The Maruti Alto car appears to have been driven towards Guwahati at very high speed before ramming into a standing passenger bus on the highway.

Meanwhile, sources in the Forest department said there is no report of any poaching from any of the protected areas in the State during the last 48 hours.

State Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma, however, said that she has asked Forest officials in Kaziranga National Park, Orang National Park and Pabitora Wildlife sanctuary to carry out search operations in the protected areas to find out if there was any poaching to correlate to the accident on Tuesday morning.

Brahma said poachers are now using new techniques to kill rhinos. Instead of making a noise with gunfire, some poachers are using sharp arrows dipped in tranquilizer, instead of guns, to bring down rhinos.

 
SOURCE : http://www.sentinelassam.com/mainnews/story.php?sec=1&subsec=0&id=301657&dtP=2017-03-15&ppr=1#.WMjSiTaGPIU
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