Another wild dog found dead

Udhagamandalam: A day after four wild dogs were found dead near Vibhuthi Malai area in Bokkapuram in the Singara range of forests falling under the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) buffer zone, forest department’s field staff found another carcass at Achakarai in the range on Thursday.
“The incident prompted us to conduct a postmortem. The same type of deer meat, found in the stomach of the four dogs during autopsy on Wednesday, was found in the stomach of the dog,” said MTR buffer zone deputy director L C S Srikanth. “We suspect poisoning and have registered a case under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. A report was submitted to the judicial magistrate, Gudalur.”
According to the official, a special team has been formed to conduct an inquiry in the surroundings and also to search the area.