An elephant has died after being hit by another elephant at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur.
The incident occurred on December 21 last year at the elephant shed inside the park, Chief Conservator of Forests Amir Hossain Chowdhury said on Monday (January 2).
Although the safari park authorities filed a general diary in this regard on December 22, a day after the death of the elephant, the authorities concernced did not disclose the matter to media in the last couple of days.
Imran Ahmed, project director of the park and forest conservator, said that the elephant died after being hit by another elephant in the elephant shed of the park on December 21. It was seriously injured and died from a stroke instantly. After conducting an autopsy, the park’s animal hospital’s veterinary surgeon said that the elephant died from a stroke, he added.
The elephant was about 47 years old. There were total of nine elephants at the safari park -- seven males and two females. The dead elephant was a female one, said Amir Hossain Chowdhury.
The Department of Forest has formed a three-member investigation committee, led by the divisional forest officer of Dhaka, to know whether the park authorities had any negligence in its death.
In January last year, 11 zebras and a tiger in this park died mysteriously.