Powerful photo captures elephant, calf escaping flaming tar balls: 'Hell is Here'
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A photograph showing an elephant and its calf fleeing an angry mob, have won the wildlife photography award for 2017 instituted by the Sanctuary Asia wildlife magazine.
The photograph titled 'Hell is Here' is clicked by Bipal Hazra, a wildlife photographer from West Bengal.
The photograph shows a mob hurling tar bombs and crackers toward the animals pushing them away from a human settlement nearby. The photograph is taken in West Bengal's Bankura district, an area which sees the large-scale man-animal conflict.
People on Twitter are furious after seeing this photo.
It’s really pain to read a news about a elephant calf put on fire ?? @drharshvardhan Sir you must take some action against it. ?? pic.twitter.com/nhc7ttpzd3
— priyaranjan dwivedi (@priyaranjandwiv) November 7, 2017
Disgusting a calf elephant on fire wins wildlife photo competition. Sad world we live in ????
— Dawn Punter (@dawnpunter) November 7, 2017
@narendramodi a heart-breaking photograph titled Hell is Here showing an Elephant and her Calf on fire fleeing a mob https://t.co/NG9FtgLSoh
— ANKUSH (@ANKUSH_A2) November 7, 2017
Really? Are these #animals in jail yet or Indian!!! , I meant the real #animals who set them on fire? #photography https://t.co/LXMInsUw5o
— Sourav Majumder (@imSouravMajumdr) November 8, 2017
human curelty have no limits putting elephant calf on fire is lower most level of human thinking/character.Shame https://t.co/SXjuHR5Oxv
— Muhammad Irshad Ktk (@Muhamma62409995) November 8, 2017
To guide or direct them away is one thing. But to set a calf on fire? Dude ur a sadist. That’s beyond cruel. Really
— Shoshi Calvin (@shoshicalvin) November 7, 2017