A pregnant elephant was killed in India after eating fruit stuffed with explosives, officials said Wednesday, sparking outrage over the use of such traps to protect crops and homes.
The wild elephant strayed into a village near Silent Valley National Park in south Kerala state last Wednesday when it ate the rigged fruit -- believed to be a pineapple -- which exploded and severely injured its mouth, officials said.
A similar incident took place last month when a female elephant was found with serious mouth injures in a nearby district, Kumar said, adding that it too died of its injuries. "She didn't harm a single human being even when she ran in searing pain in the streets of the village," Mohan Krishnan, wrote.Photos of the pachyderm shared on social media showed it standing in a river after the incident, dunking its mouth and trunk in the water hours before she died.
India has lost vast swathes of forest to urbanisation in recent decades, forcing animals closer to human settlements and resulting in an increasing number of encounters.
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