Pregnant elephant killed in India’s Kerala’s forest likely ate a pineapple stuffed with explosives, officials say

As India is dealing with “the double whammy of cyclone Nisarga along with the coronavirus pandemic, a horrific event of a pregnant wild elephant being killed in Kerala’s Silent Valley National Park (Palakkad) left many deeply saddened” according to a report by Business Insider India. The 15-year-old pregnant elephant tried to eat a fruit, believed to be a pineapple, likely stuffed with explosives. While the one-month pregnant elephant died on May 27, it isn’t clear when or where the explosive-laden fruit exploded in her mouth that broke her jaw. “Based on the nature of its wound, we are assuming that it died due to explosives. We are suspecting that the elephant fell prey to the explosive...