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Terrorist pachyderms M. Nelson Piyaratne Kataragama group correspondent Three wild elephants including an eleven ft. tusker with three ft long tusks is reported to terrorises farmers, and destroying paddy fields in the Kochchipathana area in Kataragama. These elephants are said to have escaped the electric fence at Kataragamuwa situated close to Kataragama to enter paddy fields. The farmers have urged the authorities to relocate them at Yala National Park. Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Assistant Directors Office of the Wild Life Department in Kataragama said that the elephants had entered Kochchipathana paddy fields not from the Kataragamuwa gate but from the Kirinda area where there is no electric fence, as squatters had cleared the jungle and were engaged in Chena cultivation. The only remedial measure for this problem is to expedite the erection of an electric fence from Kirinda to Bundala, the spokesman said. |
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