Indonesian authorities say male
orangutan was found with 130 airgun pellets and machete wounds in the second
known killing this year
Agence France-Presse
Wed 7 Feb
2018 12.27 GMTLast modified on Wed 7 Feb 2018 22.00 GMT
The body of a Borneo orangutan
has been found riddled with some 130 airgun pellets, Indonesian authorities
have said, the second known killing this year.
The male orangutan, which also
showed signs of machete wounds, was found by villagers in Borneo’s East Kutai
district this week, police said, adding that an autopsy had been carried out.
“We found pellets all over its
body. There were also a number of cut wounds that could have been caused by a
machete,” said local police chief Dedi Agustono, who added that the killer had
not been caught.
“It is the most bullet wounds we
have ever seen on an orangutan,” he added. Most of the pellets were lodged in
the animal’s head and around its eyes.
The killing comes about a week
after Borneo police arrested two rubber plantation workers and accused them of
shooting an orangutan multiple times and then decapitating it.
Another orangutan was found
last week floating in a river after being shot and decapitated.
The orangutan’s headless body had
been found floating in a river on the island, which is shared with Malaysia.
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