24 jumbo deaths in dry spell

 Bangalore, May 28: The Karnataka forest department is grappling with dehydration-related deaths of wild elephants in a reThe situation is such that 24 elephants have died between January and May this year in the Nagarhole forest, around 230km south of Bangalore.serve forest teeming with pachyderms.

The post-mortem on the carcasses indicated they died of dehydration-related problems. Only 13 deaths, mostly because of old age, were recorded during the same period in 2011.