Guwahati, April 21: The Forest officials on Tuesday recovered a Caracas of a rhino near the Hanuman forest camp in Kohora range of the Kaziranga National park.

“The rhino was killed and its horn was chopped off and taken away by the poachers three-time days back,” said a forest official.

The official said this is the first incident of poaching taken place in the park.

In May 2020, the poacher had killed another one-horned rhino in the national park and chopped off its horn.

In 2020, three incidents of rhino poaching were reported from the national park.

“We are monitoring every activity in the National Park to and we have successfully arrested many poachers from the vicinity of the National Park. This rhino was killed four days ago and the poachers chopped of its horn,” said a forest official.

Rhino poaching is an organised crime and the smugglers who deal with animal parts are active in the area and they smuggled the animal parts to other countries through the Myanmar route.