2 rhinos poached in 4 days in Kaziranga

The Times of India , Thursday, January 28, 2016
Correspondent : TNN
Jorhat/Guwahati: Assam's Kaziranga National Park has lost two rhinos to poachers in four days. With this, the number of rhinos killed this month has risen to three. One rhino was killed and de¬horned by poachers near Tunikatianti¬poaching camp under the park's Burapahar forest range at 1am on Wednesday and another was killed on Sunday. In both cases, poachers used M4 carbine rifle, park officials said. Such rifles are mostly used by rebel groups, they added. "Armed police force and our forest guards fired upon the poachers but they managed to escape towards the neighbouringKarbiAnglong hills," Kaziranga divisional forest officer SK Seal Sarma said. On January 12, poachers killed an adult female rhino near Sitolmarianti¬poaching camp in the park's Bagori forest range and fled with its horn. State forest minister Atuwa Munda said that P Buragohain, the range officer of Burapahar range, has been transferred following Wednesday's killing. The state police department will provide 24 self¬loading rifles to the park guards, he said, and added that an additional company of armed police force will be deployed at the park after the South Asian Games are over. "Our priority is to reduce the gap in front¬line staff. There is still a shortage of 90 in the total strength of 500 front¬line staff. We are also going to write to the Centre to release funds needed to run the rhino protection force soon," Munda said.
 
SOURCE : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/environment/flora-fauna/2-rhinos-poached-in-4-days-in-kaziranga/articleshow/50750169.cms?prtpage=1
 


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