Pygmy elephant death: It could have been revenge

A female pygmy elephant with multiple gunshot wounds was found in a plantation.

KOTA KINABALU: Revenge is the likely motive behind the killing of a 10-year-old Borneo pygmy elephant at a plantation close to the Malua Forest Reserve in Sabah's east coast district of Kinabatangan.

Investigators believe that the endangered animal it might have been a victim of revenge rather than a victim of poachers.