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Skeletal elephant dies in Sri Lanka weeks after parade outcry

Tikiri, aged 70, has died just weeks after an outcry over her proposed participation in a Sri Lanka parade.

An emaciated 70-year-old elephant that caused a social media outcry after being forced to take part in an annual Buddhist pageant in Sri Lanka has died, officials said Wednesday.

The government has ordered an autopsy for Tikiri, a domesticated Asian elephant that died Tuesday night in Kegalle, 80 kilometres (50 miles) east of the capital Colombo, a wildlife department official said.

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