A heart- breaking story has been
reported yesterday (01)regarding the deaths of five Wild Elephants who got stucked in a marshy area of a bramch river while drinking water there and died .
Accordingly Five Wild Elephants belonging to Somawathiya Wild Life Park in Polonnaruwa had drowned In the branch river of MahawelI, Periyanaru Canal attached to a Wild Life park at Thummodara ,Polonnaruwa while drinking water due to a Wild plant "Japan Jabara" spreads heavily in the canal it has been revealed.They may have died few days back ,However a fishermen spotted them and informed on the incident to Wild Life officers yesterday (01).
The Wild Life officers at Somawathiya are conducting an investigations over the incident.