Elephant rescued finally from Jamalpur

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A 17-member team finally rescued a washed-away male elephant from a ditch of Koyra village of Sarishabari upazila in Jamalpur, Thursday afternoon.
The elephant, separated from its herd had made a perilous journey through Brahmaputra River in India and Jamuna in Bangladesh in the last one-and-a-half-months, villagers and forest department officials said.
Feeble, the pachyderm was chased by villagers and forced to stay in shallow flood waters for days and nights. He was eating long-grown grasses on the shoals and banana and rice plants when he got chances in the villages along the Jamuna River, inhabitants said.
Nameless, he was first traced on June 27 at a Bogra shoal in the river, more than 200 miles away from his Indian sanctuary.
Veterinary surgeon Syeed tranquilized the elephant before he was tied to a mongo tree after his legs were shackled.
Earlier, a 3-member Indian team failed to salvage the huge beast because of his location in water where he might have drowned if put on sleep by a tranquilizer, Indian experts and Bangladesh officials earlier said.
Forest department official Khalilur Rahman told New Age on Thursday night that they were administering saline vials into the body of the elephant to get him well.
The elephant appeared at Sarishabari on July 27.
Now the animal will find a new home at Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur, the vet surgeon said.

Source: New Age