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Shoot-to-kill: India hunts serial killer elephant
Breitbart ^
| 11 Aug 2017
| AFP
Posted on 08/11/2017 7:29:15 AM PDT by Bratch
New Delhi (AFP) – India’s top hunter on Friday led a shoot-to-kill pursuit of an elephant whose murderous rampage through villages has left 15 people dead.
The government has turned to sharpshooter Nawab Shafat Ali Khan ahead of World Elephant Day on Saturday to hunt the animal who crushed four victims in the eastern state of Bihar in March before crossing into neighbouring Jharkhand and killing 11 more.
Jharkhand’s chief forest and wildlife conservator L.R. Singh said the decision to kill the animal was made after a team failed to tranquilise and capture the elephant during a week-long mission.
Singh blamed the rocky terrain and thick vegetation in Sahibganj district. “The visibility is only 15 feet and it’s become next to impossible to tranquilise the animal,” Singh told AFP.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elephants; india; rogueelephant; wildlife; wildlifeincursion
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Probably should have went with the lethal option after the first incident.
After humans, a rogue elephant is likely the most dangerous animal in the world.
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:29:15 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Bratch
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:34:32 AM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: Bratch
...Along with a rogue bear. There was a famous incident in Hokkaido in 1915 (the Sankebetsu brown bear attacks) that killed seven people before it was finally tracked down and killed after a four-day search.
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:35:04 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: Bratch
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:41:04 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
To: Bratch
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08/11/2017 7:42:52 AM PDT
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ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
To: Bratch
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08/11/2017 7:43:57 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
To: Bratch
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:44:16 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Bratch
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:46:07 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:48:07 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
To: RayChuang88; Bratch
"After humans, a rogue elephant is likely the most dangerous animal in the world." "...Along with a rogue bear."
You may want to put a new animal at the top of your lists after witnessing the ferocity of this attack...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmri--Rlfy0
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:49:04 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:49:17 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:52:15 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
To: Bratch
The number one killers in Africa are hippos.
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posted on
08/11/2017 7:59:44 AM PDT
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: Rio
Killer hogs in Missouri...
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posted on
08/11/2017 8:23:04 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: eastsider; JoeProBono; Salamander; Larry Lucido; humblegunner; 50mm; Semper Mark; kanawa
"The number one killers in Africa are hippos." You don't say?
Imagine that!
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08/11/2017 8:23:55 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: Bratch
After humans, a rogue elephant is likely the most dangerous animal in the world. As I recall from my safari guides, hippos are number one, crocs next, then elephants and then humans.
To: ETL
I can almost hear the “Baby Elephant Walk” playing.
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posted on
08/11/2017 8:44:51 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(GO TRUMP!)
To: shibumi
Hippo vs Cheetah
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08/11/2017 8:48:46 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: JoeProBono
Daaaaayum! Henrietta got the juice...
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08/11/2017 8:51:28 AM PDT
by
bar sin·is·ter
(Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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