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Dhenkanal,October27: In a tragic incident, as many as seven elephants were electrocuted after coming in contact with a live wire at Kamalanga village under Sadar Forest Range in Dhenkanal district last night.
The carcasses of the pachyderms were found lying in a nullah in the locality this morning.
Sources said an overhead electric wire was hanging loosely for a railway track near the village. Late last night, around 13 pachyderms were crossing the railway track in the forest, when seven of them came in contact with the electric wire and died on the spot.
On receiving information, Parjang forest officials reached the spot and recovered the carcasses.
Prasanta Patnaik