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Guwahati, December 22 : Poachers continued its killing spree in Assam's Kaziranga National Park (KNP) as killed another one horned rhinoceros.
The poachers had chopped off its horn and managed to flee with it.
The incident took place at Daflang forest camp under Bagori range office in the world heritage site on Wednesday night.
Forest guards of the park had found the dehorned bullet injuries body of a male rhino inside the national park on Thursday morning.
It is the second rhino poaching incident in Kaziranga this month.
Kaziranga lost 22 rhinos in this year so far.
Recently, Assam police and forest battalion had launched operation at Karbi Anglong hills area and busted a poachers camp.
The troops recovered several sophisticated weapons including two AK-56 rifles which were used by poachers to kill rhino.
Meanwhile, Assam forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma has ordered the department officials to take stern action against poachers.
Assam had lost over 300 rhinos which were poached in past a decade.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
