National Museum authorities will preserve the skeleton of ‘Bangabahadur’, the Indian wild elephant which died last Tuesday in Jamalpur, if the government gives the permission.
A team of the museum, consisting of three members said this to reporters on Friday while visiting the spot at Sharishabarhi Upazila’s Koyra village where the elephant has been buried.
The team members are the museum’s assistant keepers Shawkat Imam Khan and Golam Kausar and gardener Sharafat Hossain.
The female elephant got separated from her herd in Assam and came to Bangladesh through Kurigram’s Chilmari upazila on June 27.
Since then wild life experts from both India and Bangladesh were having busy time to rescue the elephant and shift it to safe place.
The three-member Indian expert team arrived in Bangladesh on August 3 to bring back the stray wild elephant and finally left the country on Monday leaving the poor animal behind.
After the forest department rescue team has been trying to rescue the elephant but failed due to lack of favorable condition.
Later on last Thursday, the wild Indian elephant was tranquilized and has finally been rescued.
But the elephant, which was later named as Bangabahadur, had broken free on Saturday after being rescued.
She was tranquilized yet again on Sunday (August 14) morning. The elephant was supposed to be shifted to the Safari once it regained enough strength.
Source: Ittefaq
