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Guwahati : Assam forest department personnel on Friday morning had arrested five poachers and recovered several wild animal parts in lower Assam's Barpeta district, officials said.
A top official of the state forest department said that, following a tip-off, the personnel of Panbari forest range under Manas National Park had arrested the poacher gang near the park.
The forest personnel had also recovered one skin a panther tiger, 157 pieces of tiger bones and one handmade gun in possession from them.
The arrested poachers were identified as Sunil Bodo, Sanjiv Basumutary, Ranjan Daimary, Bonaru Bodo and Badu Bodo.
'During the preliminary interrogation, the poachers confessed that, they had killed a tiger inside the national park on April 25 last,'Â the forest official said.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
