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Another sambar found dead near Tirunelveli

By P. Sudhakar

TIRUNELVELI, MARCH 13. Just six days after the accidental death of a sambar near the Kaavalkinaru junction close to the Western Ghats, a female sambar, aged about two-and-a-half years, died here today under mysterious circumstances.

On seeing the sambar grazing in a barbed wire-fenced vacant plot next to their station, the Perumalpuram police tried to catch the animal, but in vain. When they chased the animal, the sambar sustained injuries in the back and the snout. Though the policemen informed the Forest department personnel after leaving the animal alone, it died soon.

Postmortem at the Sripuram Veterinary Hospital showed revealed that the animal had eaten grass and gooseberry.

Though the Forest department personnel suspect that the animal could have strayed into this area from Kalakkad via the Tamirabarani course, the policemen said the poachers might have caught the animal and it could have escaped from them when they reached Tirunelveli.

The carcass was buried in the Gangaikondan reserve forest, forest officials said.

Meanwhile, forest personnel extinguished a bush-fire, which broke out in the Five Falls area of Courtallam yesterday.

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