Rhino horn found in car that met with accident; 3 Manipuri persons killed

Police on Tuesday recovered a freshly-removed rhino-horn from a car that had met with an accident at Baihata Chariali near here, while three of the four occupants of the car – all said to be from Manipur – have been killed.

“While a car met with an accident at Baihata Chariali early today (Tuesday) in which two persons died on the spot and one on the way to hospital, police recovered a rhino-horn, the butt of a gun and some substance suspected to be drugs. All the four occupants of the car are



believed to have hailed from Manipur,” Kamrup SP Partha Sarathi Mahanta said.

The car (AS-01-AH-0487) was heading towards Guwahati when it collided with a bus near Baihata Chariali, about 20 kms north of Guwahati, with police and the forest department suspecting that the rhino must have been killed in and around Kaziranga or Orang, both national parks. Police are also trying to track down the owner of the car (a Chevrolet) which has a Guwahati registration number, the SP said.