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12 blackbucks fall to death from Solapur bridge, 2 injured

The incident took place on a bridge in Kegaon on the Solapur-Bijapur Highway, around 44 kilometres from Mumbai, at 6:30 pm on Saturday.

blackbuckThe officials said that the leopard entered into the park with the aim to attack and prey on a black buck (Representative image)
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TWELVE BLACKBUCKS died and two were injured after they fell off a bridge in Maharashtra’s Solapur district, said a police official on Sunday.

The incident took place on a bridge in Kegaon on the Solapur-Bijapur Highway, around 44 kilometres from Mumbai, at 6:30 pm on Saturday.

“The blackbucks fell to the ground from a height of 30 ft. As 12 died, the two injured blackbucks were taken to a nearby hospital run by the forest department. Residents, meanwhile, alerted police and forest department officials,” said the official.

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