An elephant named after Osama bin Laden has died in captivity after going on a wild stampede that killed five people.
The animal died yesterday at the Orang National Park in Assam, India, where officials were planning to teach it to patrol wildlife parks and sanctuaries.
The elephant killed five people through the Goalpara district in October.
It had been tracked for days by forestry officers and was tranquilised last week.
"The animal was behaving as normal. It was, however, kept with its legs tied so that it couldn't escape," a park ranger, who asked to remain anonymous, told AFP.
The keeper reported the animal dead at roughly 5am on Sunday, he said.
A senior official said the state government had sent a team of veterinarians to carry out an autopsy.
At the moment, the cause of death remains unclear.
Before the elephant's death, the forestry department planned to tame it using "kraak", a regime condemned by wildlife conservationists as torture, France24 reports.
The animal was unsuitable for captivity because it was believed to be around 35 years old, conservationists said.
Over 2,300 people were killed by elephants in India in the last five years, according to The Hindu .
The beasts frequently migrate into Goalpara, resulting in high numbers of fatal encounters with humans because of rampant deforestation.
