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Lightning killed 18 elephants in Assam: report


Forest Department rules out any foul play
A strong negative lightning flash with a peak current of 39,000 amperes at 9.28 p.m. killed the 18 elephants in Kandali Proposed Reserve Forest in central Assam’s Nagaon district on May 13, an autopsy report has concluded.
Making the exhaustive report public on Thursday, Assam Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya ruled out any foul play such as a conscious attempt of electrocution, revenge killing, poisoning.
The report prepared by the North Eastern Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (NERDDL) in Guwahati with meteorological inputs from the North East Satellite Application Centre at Umiam in Meghalaya also negated any anthrax outbreak. ....

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