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I have doubts that the elephants were drunk and this was an accident.

Insiders have told me that this was deliberately an act of revenge on the

part of locals who laid the trap and managed to poach the six elephants.

A similar incident happened about a year back in the same 'garo hills'.

In Assam there have been several incidents in the past where teas estates,

individuals, encroacher etc have been found guilty of using the high tension

electric cables as a weapon to keep away elephants.

Near Sonai rupai sanctuary a man was arrested on charges that he laied a

220V electricfence that resulted in the death of a 35 yr old tusker.

 

Azam

 

Link:

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features_lifestyle_animal/2007/10/drunken-eleph\

an.html

Drunken elephants electrocuted Posted on Oct 23, 2007 8:59:17 AM

 

(From The Associated Press) GAUHATI, India — Six Asiatic wild elephants were

electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote

northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday. Nearly 40 elephants came to a

village on Friday looking for food. Some found beer, which farmers ferment

and keep in plastic and tin drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state

wildlife official. They got drunk, uprooted a utility pole carrying power

lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles

west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, Kumar said. " There would

have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away, " said Dipu

Mark, a local conservationist. The elephants are known to have a taste for

rice beer brewed by tribal communities in India's northeast. Four wild

elephants died in similar circumstances in the region three years ago.

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