Rajkot: Carcasses of two wild asses were found dumped in a pit in Sukhpar village of Rapar taluka of Kutch on Friday. Forest officials said the animals seemed to heave died a week ago. Locals alleged that wild asses died of thirst as the region was facing acute shortage of water and the artificial water tanks created by forest department had also gone dry. It is suspected that they fell into the pit in search of water. This place from where the carcass were found falls under the Wild Ass Sanctuary. Deputy conservator of forest P Purushothama could not be contacted for comments. tnn