Belagavi: At least 29 Blackbucks have died of suspected bacterial infection at the Kittur Rani Chennamma Mini Zoo in Belagavi over the past four days including today Sunday, November 16.

The Rani Channamma Mini Zoo, which is spread across 34 acres and 12km from the Belagavi town, is home to around 200 wild animals, including tigers, lions and hyenas. Accorsing to Forest Officials, only Blackbucks were the affected lot due to alleged bacterial infection.

Zoo keepers found around 8 Blackbucks dead on Thursday while another 20 of them fell dead by Saturday night and one succumbed on Sunday evening after wildlife veterinarians were flown from Bengaluru to Belagavi on Saturday to take stock of the situation.

Preliminary investigations revealed the Blackbucks might have contracted this bacter

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