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Poachers kill rhino, escape with horn
Context:
Assam Governor Mukhi has directed authorities to take all measures to prevent poaching of rhinos.
What has happened?
- Recently, an adult rhino has been killed by poachers in the Western range of the Kaziranga
- The incident took place at Polokata near the Sitamari area — a sandbar island in the Brahmaputra -south of the Baghmari powergrid station under the Lahorijan forest camp.
Previous instances
- This is the second rhino poaching incident in Kaziranga in 2018
- During the ongoing budget session of the Assam Assembly, Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma had said that altogether 74 rhinos have been killed by poachers in Assam since 2015
- As many as 21 rhinos were killed in 2015, 22 in 2016 and 9 in 2017
