Elephant, calf rescued inside Army Cantt

An elephant and her calf, who fell into a water tank in the Army's Narangi Cantonment here were rescued by a joint team of the troops and the forest department today.
At about 2.30 pm the staff of 14 Field Ammunition Depot in the cantonment noticed the elephants had fallen in the static water tank (SWT) and reported the matter to the higher authorities of the depot, defence sources said.
The commandant of the depot S K Vohra along with his team of officers, combatants and fire staff drew a rescue plan and also informed the divisional forest officer D D Gogoi.

The tank was emptied of water to prevent the elephant and her calf from drowning and its wall were broken to make way for them to get out, the sources said.