A young Slow loris sustains injury after it got electrocuted while crossing from one tree to another and touched a live wire passing through the tree tops at rtongkhon songgital locality, outskirts of Tura, on Friday night. Local villagers helped to get it up on its feet and the animal was returned to the nearby forests.

The presence of such rare animal species so close to Tura town indicates a thriving conservation in the region which was once plagued by widespread poaching of animals. Slow lorises are a group of several species of nocturnal strepsirrhine primates that make up the genus Nycticebus. Found in Southeast Asia and bordering areas, they range from Bangladesh and Northeast India in the west to the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines in the east, and from Yunnan province in China in the north to the island of Java in the south.