12 rare one-horned rhinos killed by floods in India
At least 12 one-horned rhinos, a threatened species, have died as a result of flooding in a national park in north-eastern India, park officials said on Sunday (July 21).
Eleven of them drowned while trying to escape floodwaters and one slipped into a ditch while trying to climb a highland, said an official at the Kaziranga National Park in India's north-eastern Assam state.
The sprawling 430-square-kilometre park is a Unesco World Heritage site and home to two-thirds of the world's population of the Rhinoceros Unicornis - more commonly known as the Indian rhinoceros. At the last count in 2015, the park had a population of 2,401 rhinos.
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