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The elephant handlers in India have accused and blamed the authorities to neglect an elephant after watching the video footage of the animal collapsing and dying.
According to the local news media, the handlers said that they were able to see the 37-year-old male elephant who is called Drona fall, but the calls to the vet went unanswered.
It is such a heartbreaking video to see the animal fall and die at the Nagarahole National Park in the Southwestern state of Karnataka.
It is seen that the poor elephant was tied with a chain on his foot and trunk and then it collapses on its left side. According to the officials, Drona died when he went to drink water from the tank nearby.
Drona has been sick since Friday morning and according to the first mahout who saw Drona says that the cause of heart attack. The vets will do an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Drona won the fame in 2017 and 2018 when he carried platform or golden howdah to mark the Hindu religious festival in Dasara which is a city in Mysuru.
Fifteen colorfully decorated elephants in the religious procession were brought from the Nagarahole Forest.
It is a sad sight to see the giant beast suffer so severely and fall on his left side. The giant creature was poorly tied with heavy chains around her feet and trunk which made her fall on her left side while going to drink water.
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