Rhinoceros shot dead in Kaziranga National Park
A female adult one-horned rhinoceros was killed by poachers on Tuesday in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. The horn of the rhinoceros was found removed from its recovered carcass. This is the third such case of rhinoceros killing in Kaziranga in the past 40 days. Notably, as many as 17 Kaziranga rhinos were killed by poachers in 2015.