Bhubaneswar: Locals spotted the carcass of a tusker near Oraghat village in the Koira forest range in Odisha’s Sundargarh district on Sunday morning.
According to reports, the tusker died last evening, but the precise reason for its death is yet to be ascertained.
On being informed, Forest Department officials reached Paramsahi of Oraghat village and conducted a post-mortem of the carcass.
It is worth mentioning here that another carcass of a tusker was found at the same locality a few days ago. So far, four elephants have died in the Koira forest range in the last few years.
