Three-month-old rescued elephant calf dies; tusker toll at MP’s Bandhavgarh reaches 11 within a fortnight

Umaria, 11/10: An elephant calf that got separated from the herd and was rescued died at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Madhya Pradesh’s Umaria district on Sunday morning, an official said.

With this, 11 tuskers have died in BTR since last month. The calf was found ill and abandoned by its herd in the buffer zone of the BTR on Friday, the official said.