Tusker Agbo shot in the eye with catapult, youth arrested
B.G.Chaturang, Daily Mirror
July 20, 2024
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An individual who shot the tusker Agbo frequenting Tirappane area, in its
eye with a catapult, was taken into custody by Tirappane Police yesterday.
The suspect was a resident of Akkara Panaha in Ethungama, Tirappane in the
Anuradhapura District.
Police arrested him during investigations of a complaint received from the
Organisation to Protect Wild Elephants and on information received by
Senior DIG Priyantha Weerasuriya from a resident of the area. The tusker
had been provided treatment for a gunshot injury earlier and had undergone
more than 100 surgeries before it recovered.
After recovery, it has been frequenting Tirappane area and causing
extensive damage to cultivated land and home garden crops.
A representative of the organisation and Environmentalist Sumit
Wanigasuriya said the villagers often inflicted cruelties on Agbo when it
roamed into cultivated land. He pointed out that the tusker was an asset
that should be protected. He expressed concern about leaving it to the
mercy of the villagers. The environmentalist who expressed concern about
the pathetic condition of the jumbo said that it would not survive for
more than six months if the wildlife officers neglected it. OIC Tirappane
Police R.M.S.Kumarasinghe conducted investigations and arrested the
suspect who shot the jumbo in its eye with a catapult.
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Tusker Agbo shot in the eye with catapult, youth arrested
B.G.Chaturang, Daily Mirror
July 20, 2024
See link
<https://www.dailymirror.lk/print/front-page/Tusker-Agbo-shot-in-the-eye-with-catapult-youth-arrested/238-287669>
for photo.
An individual who shot the tusker Agbo frequenting Tirappane area, in its
eye with a catapult, was taken into custody by Tirappane Police yesterday.
The suspect was a resident of Akkara Panaha in Ethungama, Tirappane in the
Anuradhapura District.
Police arrested him during investigations of a complaint received from the
Organisation to Protect Wild Elephants and on information received by
Senior DIG Priyantha Weerasuriya from a resident of the area. The tusker
had been provided treatment for a gunshot injury earlier and had undergone
more than 100 surgeries before it recovered.
After recovery, it has been frequenting Tirappane area and causing
extensive damage to cultivated land and home garden crops.
A representative of the organisation and Environmentalist Sumit
Wanigasuriya said the villagers often inflicted cruelties on Agbo when it
roamed into cultivated land. He pointed out that the tusker was an asset
that should be protected. He expressed concern about leaving it to the
mercy of the villagers. The environmentalist who expressed concern about
the pathetic condition of the jumbo said that it would not survive for
more than six months if the wildlife officers neglected it. OIC Tirappane
Police R.M.S.Kumarasinghe conducted investigations and arrested the
suspect who shot the jumbo in its eye with a catapult.
https://www.dailymirror.lk/print/front-page/Tusker-Agbo-shot-in-the-eye-with-catapult-youth-arrested/238-287669