Bhubaneswar, Oct. 18 -- An injured tusker died in the Gaja Buri Kheshada forest under the Naktideula forest range in Rairakhol in Odisha's Sambalpur on Sunday after suffering for eight days. The elephant had been limping due to an injury to its front left leg.

According to the Forest Department, two teams were continuously monitoring the elephant's movements with the help of drones. The department had planned to tranquilise the tusker on Sunday, but it died before the operation could be carried out.

It is being suspected that the elephant might have sustained the injury from a poacher's gunshot. However, the cause of the injury was yet to be confirmed.

Questions have been raised over whether the Forest Department provided medical treat...