Dehra Dun, October 2
Arundhati, the fracture-ridden 75-year-old female elephant, which was in acute pain and awaited mercy killing, died here tonight of “natural causes”.
“Arundhati died of natural death,” said an Uttarkhand Forest Department official. The pachyderm, who has carried thousands of tourists on her back for a jungle safari around Rajaji National Park, had suffered multiple fractures after she got struck in a marsh in the park area some days back.
Since the elephant was writhing in pain, the park authorities had awarded euthanasia to the elephant to lessen its excruciating pain.
— PTI
