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At least one person is dead, and others injured after shots were fired at a crowd of people on their way to vote in an 'illegal' plebiscite on the future of Venezuela.
The Sri Lankan navy rescues a drowning elephant in a 12 hour operation after it was swept to sea.
The Sri Lankan navy troops attached to the Eastern Naval Command were going about their routine patrol when they noticed the elephant being dragged out to sea offshore in the Kokkuthuduvai area in Kokilai.
Navy officers can be seen swimming alongside the elephant attempting to attach a rope to the animal's neck while a boat helps guide the elephant back to shore.
Experts say the discovery of the elephant so far from land was less remarkable than it seemed, with Asain elephants known to regularly traversed short distances through water, even swimming between small landforms.