{"id":445202,"date":"2021-10-26T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T03:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=445202"},"modified":"2021-10-26T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T04:37:06","slug":"assam-three-elephants-electrocuted-to-death-in-last-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/assam-three-elephants-electrocuted-to-death-in-last-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam: Three elephants electrocuted to death in last two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sagging power lines have claimed the lives of three elephants in Assam since Sunday. While an 18-year-old female elephant was electrocuted to death in Dholagaon Pathar in Golaghat district on Sunday, two more deaths\u2014that of a 45-year-old male in Gorchuk near Guwahati and an 18-year-old male in the Kaziranga National Park\u2019s (KNP) Burhapahar range\u2014 were reported on Monday after the pachyderms came in contact with the transmission lines.<\/p>\n<p>In KNP, besides the elephant, which belonged to the forest department, a swamp deer and two wild boars were also killed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the KNP authorities, the chain of the elephant got caught in the electric pole, located inside the national park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sagging power lines have claimed the lives of three elephants in Assam since Sunday. While an 18-year-old female elephant was electrocuted to death in Dholagaon Pathar in Golaghat district on Sunday, two more deaths\u2014that of a 45-year-old male in Gorchuk near Guwahati and an 18-year-old male in the Kaziranga National Park\u2019s (KNP) Burhapahar range\u2014 were reported on Monday after the pachyderms came in contact with the transmission lines. In KNP, besides the elephant, which belonged to the forest department, a swamp deer and two wild boars were also killed. According to the KNP authorities, the chain of the elephant got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}