24 monkeys found dead near NH in Trichy dist
23.01.2022
Trichy: As many as 24 monkeys including six females were found dead on a vacant land near Trichy-Chennai NH on Sunday morning. Forest officials said that the cause of death is being investigated.
According to the officials, they got an alert that carcasses of monkeys were found on a vacant land and an agriculture field near the reserve forest at Nedungur village in Trichy district. A team of officials led by forest ranger Gopinath rushed to the spot, and found 24 dead monkeys on the land. All of them were two-years-old. As per the initial investigations, the death seemed not because of the poisoning. They might have died due to suffocation, the forest ranger said.
“The perpetrators might have confined the animals in a small cage leaving the monkeys dead. However, the actual reason of death will be known only after getting the postmortem report,” Gopinath said.
Special teams have been formed to probe into the incident and nab the culprits involved in the incident, officials said. After performing the postmortem, carcasses of all the 24 animals were buried inside the reserve forest range of Nedungur, forest officials said.
Meanwhile, forest officials have seized five small pieces of elephant tusk from two people.
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