In India, an elephant died trying to eat pineapples. Pineapple was stuffed with firecrackers. The elephant died of breathing in the river or mouth. The elephant died putting her mouth in the river.
It was a pregnant mother elephant, and even the baby elephant died together. The elephant went into the water quietly and endured four days. Then slowly died.
A national park official said, "It was a wounded elephant. The lower jaw was exposed, did not eat, and died shortly thereafter."
It happened on the Beliyar River in the Kerala Palakad region in southern India. The elephant was injured trying to eat fruit.
The elephant thought it was just a pineapple, but the inside was filled with firecrackers. The villagers had decorated it like fruit to protect the farmland from wild boar.
The reason the elephant stayed in the water was to heal the wounds in the mouth caused by the explosion of firecrackers.
Indian forest authorities said, "It is not Indian culture to kill animals with firecrackers.", "We will investigate closely and catch the criminals," he said.
Criticism continues that as the death of an elephant is known, harm to an innocent animal must be stopped.