Buckshot retrieved from elephant"s skull

2004-12-02 - Lahad Datu, Malaysia. Daily Express

The Wildlife Department recovered a homemade buckshot believed
to have been used in the gruesome killing of a pygmy elephant at Sungai
Dewata, about Km 36 of the Lahad Datu-Kunak road here, mid November.

District officer-in-charge, Stephen Sira Gibin, said the bullet was
retrieved from the skull of the dead elephant early this week.

"The bullet is similar to that of an ordinary buckshot but longer. We
believe it is a homemade ammunition,"...

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