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| Photo Credit: HANDOUTmore-inAfter a six-hour operation, a female Indian gaur that had fallen into an open farm well was rescued on Sunday morning. The gaur which fell into a farm well near Manapparai in Tiruchi district being lifted using a crane in the early hours on Sunday. Medicines were applied on the scratch marks before it was released into the reserve forest, she added. The rescue operation took about six hours for completion, Ms.
Sujatha said adding that the animal had only a mild a scratch near its tail. Since it could not be lifted out in a conscious state, it was tranquillised, said Sujatha, District Forest Officer (DFO), Tiruchi..