Recently, a baby elephant was killed after being hit by a train in Dhaka's Uttara area on May 17. Their mahout was walking two elephants along the rail tracks, when the train hit and killed one of the elephants, and the mahout fled the scene immediately with the other elephant.

A baby elephant was found dead at Chattogram’s Bashkhali upazila on Monday, making it the third gentle giant to be found dead in the upazila in two weeks.