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Telangana forest guard removes 6 poacher traps. Seventh killed him
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Naveen was searching for the traps when his leg got entangled on an 11 KV live wire in the forest area of Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana.
(Credit: Special Arrangement/Wikimedia Commons/Enhanced using AI)A forest guard was electrocuted after coming in contact with a live-wire trap set up by poachers to kill wild animals in the forest area of Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana.
The incident took place on Tuesday night, between 9 pm and 10 pm, district forest officer Sidharth Vikram Singh told The Indian Express.
On the day he was killed, forest beat officer B Naveen, 37, who has been with the department since 2019, had managed to remove at least six such traps.
He first got a call on Tuesday afternoon with a tip-off on poachers laying electric wire traps in Paloncha division.