12-year-old elephant found dead

: A female elephant was found dead near a temple at Kopanari in Periyanaickenpalayam forest range near here Thursday, forest officials said.

The officials, along with a veterinarian, went to the scene and recovered the carcass.

A postmortem was conducted on the elephant believed to be 12 years old to find the cause of the death, sources from the forest department said.