Rhino attacks photographer in N Bengal forest

On Monday,the one-horned rhino was escorted deep inside the Gorumara Forest Reserve with four trained Kunki Elephants. “Our patrol party and the animals followed the footsteps and the animal was left deep inside the Forest,” Raj K Mahtolia,the chief conservator of Forest (wildlife),North Bengal told The Indian Express over telephone.

Mahtolia said the photographer was lucky to have saved his life. He has sustained injuries in thighs and back and is admitted in a nursing home. No internal injuries have been reported.

The rhino had come out of the Gorumara Reserve Forest on Sunday morning and had taken shelter between Jaldhaka and Betegada areas of Mainaguri block of Jalpaiguri.

The photographer along with a few others took a boat ride and crossed two streams to locate the animal. While he was taking the pictures,the animal rushed to him and flung him high.