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Assam Flood: 200 Animals Drown To Death In Kaziranga National Park

Officials are trying to recover the carcasses.
One-horned rhino swims through flood waters in Kaziranga National Park.
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One-horned rhino swims through flood waters in Kaziranga National Park.

GUWAHATI -- In Assam, nearly 200 wild animals have drowned to death due to flood at Kaziranga national park.

Divisional Forest Officer of the park Subhasis Das said that carcasses of 13 rhinos have been recovered so far in Kaziranga.

He said also said that 152 hog deer also died in the flood and apart from that, 12 hog deer's were killed by speeding vehicles at the national highway.

100 wild animals including 9 rhinos were rescued safely by forest officials, wildlife experts and local people.

The current flood badly damaged several wild life parks including the Kaziranga.

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