Guwahati/Siliguri/Ranchi, Sep 13: India TV has telecast exciting videos of elephants and their cubs being rescued in three adjoining states - Assam, West Bengal and Jharkhand.
In Assam's Golaghat district, wildlife officials had to fire ten rounds in the air to keep off a female elephant who was preventing rescue operations for her 10-day-old cub who had fallen into a five-feet deep hole. The cub was ultimately rescued and the mother elephant took her cub into the jungle.
In Assam's Nagaon district, an elephant cub fell into a marshy swamp. Local villagers managed to rescue the cub and it was taken in a mini-truck to the Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary.
In North Bengal, near an Army camp adjoining Siliguri, a female elephant and her cub fell into a 14-feet-deep open water reservoir kept for extinguishing forest fire.
Army jawans first used logs to bring out the duo, but when it failed they brought in nylon net. Even that effort, too, failed. The cub was ultimately rescued with the help of a crane.
The female elephant was more of a problem. The wall of the tank had to be broken to rescue her. Ultimately the mother and her cub fled into the jungle after being rescued.
In Jharkhand, wildlife officials along with fire brigade staff brought in a JCB machine to rescue a cup which had fallen into a 25-feet- deep well. After 16 hours of efforts, the cub was rescued and it ran into the jungle.
