Two rhino poachers slaughtered in bitter gun battle at Indian wildlife sanctuary
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 7, 2013 17:33Two rhino poachers have been shot dead at an Indian wildlife sanctuary.
The men were caught after Indian Forest rangers heard them trying to shoot the animals in Kaziranga National Park in Assam, Northeastern India.
The pair were killed after a gun fight between the poachers and forest rangers.
Rhinos are killed for their horn, which are extremely valuable and rival their price in gold.
Officials said that four poachers had entered the park had shot at a rhino.
The shot, which missed its target, alerted forest guards who rushed to the spot.
India’s location and array of wildlife makes it particularly susceptible to poachers who can easily export the goods.
The horns are than usually smuggled to neighboring China, where it is used as medicine and jewellery.
Poachers killed 21 rhinos in Kaziranga National Park last year.
An estimated 2,500 out of the world’s 3,000 one-horned rhinos live in Kaziranga.
Last week forest rangers engaged in a gun battle with poachers for more than seven hours, but they failed to prevent the killing of another rhino whose valuable horn was gouged out.
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