{"id":169784,"date":"2021-08-22T00:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T18:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=169784"},"modified":"2021-08-22T00:21:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T18:51:36","slug":"two-elephants-electrocuted-in-assams-baksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/22\/two-elephants-electrocuted-in-assams-baksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Two elephants electrocuted in Assam&#8217;s Baksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Aug 21 (PTI) Two elephants were killed after they came in contact with illegally installed electric fences in Assam&#8217;s Baksa district near the Bhutan border, a forest official said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident happened in the Koroibari area near the Batabari Forest Range on Friday, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The elephants, both adult females, came down from the Bhutan Hills in search of food, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A person, identified as Reshan Daimary, who had allegedly installed the electric fences to protect his crops, surrendered before the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An investigation into the incident is underway, the official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Daimary will be taken into custody and booked under the Wildlife Protection Act,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the third incident of electrocution of elephants this year amid a growing human-elephant conflict with illegal electric fences having claimed the lives of 13 jumbos so far, the official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Aug 21 (PTI) Two elephants were killed after they came in contact with illegally installed electric fences in Assam&#8217;s Baksa district near the Bhutan border, a forest official said on Saturday. The incident happened in the Koroibari area near the Batabari Forest Range on Friday, he said. The elephants, both adult females, came down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}