On Friday, Alipurduar district forest officials in north Bengal found an elephant's severed head floating down a river.
Officials from the forest department believe that the elephant was recently murdered because the region where the head was discovered is near the boundary between Assam and Bengal.
The absence of the elephant's tusks led the authorities to believe that it had been murdered by poachers in Assam.
"Preliminary investigations suggest that the elephant was not killed in our territory. It was killed somewhere in Assam. A search operation is going on. We are coordinating with our counterparts in Assam,” Debashis Sharma, deputy field director of Buxa Tiger Reserve (East), told the media.
According to him, poachers in Assam may have killed the elephant for its tusks. He continued that after obtaining the tusks, they removed the head and dumped it in the river.
As one of the first few people to hurry to the Shalbari area on the banks of the Sankosh River after hearing the story, Prabhat Barman, a Volka forest range officer, stated “It appears that the elephant was killed recently.”
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