locals on Sunday spotted carcasses of three elephants in a forest in Deogarh district.
According to reports, the locals found two female pachyderms and a calf at Asurkhol under Tileibani block in the Prabhasuni Reserve Forest of Deogarh Range in morning.
The reason behind the death of the jumbos was yet to be ascertained.
The bodies would be sent for postmortem, after which the cause of the death could be known, a forest official said.
Notably, another elephant had strayed into Asurkhol village last Sunday (June 5) and was lying at a place in Kapasira forest for three days, after which locals had alerted forest officials.
The officials called in experts from the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) to provide treatment to the ailing jumbo.
However, it succumbed to the infection three days after undergoing treatment.