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Fire in Sanjay Gandhi National Parks tiger safari enclosure [1]

Mumbai: Forest dept says fire was doused in half-an-hour, no animal injured

A fresh fire broke out at the tiger safari enclosure in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) on Wednesday evening, but was extinguished soon, said D Rathod, superintendent of lion/tiger safari. About half-an-acre within the enclosure was gutted in the fire, said the forest officials.

Publication Date: 
19/03/2009
Indian Express (Mumbai) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Forest Fires [4], Tiger [5], Sanjay Ganghi NP [6], Maharashtra [7], Mumbai [8]
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