Jumbo deaths:
Cop, wife arrested
S M Wijayaratne, Kurunegala Daily News Corr
A police constable and his wife have been arrested by Galgamuwa
Police and Wild Life Conservation Department officials in connection
with the death of two wild elephants.
The suspects were produced before Nihal Gamini, the Acting Magistrate
of Galgamuwa on Friday March 16 and remanded till March 21.
The two elephants, a male and a she elephant had died of
electrocution.
These wild elephants have come in contact with the unsafe live wires
accidentally that had been set by the suspects around their dwelling
place. Veterinary surgeon of the Wildlife Department Chandana Jayasinghe
held the post mortem examination and confirmed the deaths of elephants
were due to electroculation. A team of officials attached to Wildlife
Department is now conducting further investigations in this regard.
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