“We heard gunshots on Tuesday evening. We found the gravid rhino without horn when we went for a search the next morning,” deputy warden Ashok Bhandari said. He said a patrol team had reached the spot within 10 minutes of the gunshot, but found nothing amiss.
This is the eighth rhino killed by poachers this year, while five others have died of natural causes during the period.
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