- GUWAHATI, India (AFP) - A
wild elephant has bathed and sat guard for more than a fortnight over the
corpse of a man it trampled to death in the northeastern Indian state of
Assam, forest officials said Saturday.
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- P.K Barua from the Mazigoan forest range in Assam said
he was "absolutely baffled" at the behaviour of the Asian elephant.
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- "We just cannot get the corpse away from the elephant,"
said Barua.
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- "We think the elephant might be feeling some remorse
for having killed the villager Kotia Bora by shaking a tree on which he
was perched. Now he bathes the corpse and sits guard in front of it."
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- Meanwhile, villagers in Mazigoan demanded forest officials
"rescue the corpse" as they were waiting to cremate it according
to Hindu rites.
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