{{Zimbabwean police say they arrested six men accused of killing 41 elephants with cyanide, state media have reported.}}<\/p>\n
Police official Muyambirwa Muzzah was quoted on Friday as saying rangers found several elephant carcasses after following tracks in the southwestern Hwange National Park.<\/p>\n
Muzzah said a cache of tusks, worth $120,000 on the illegal ivory market, and other remains were found near water holes that had been laced with cyanide. <\/p>\n
He said the six were arrested when they returned to collect the ivory and they are suspected of operating from the western city of Bulawayo.<\/p>\n
The police official said hundreds of wild animals feeding on the dead elephants could also die from poisoning.<\/p>\n
The Bulawayo Chronicle newspaper reported on Friday that poachers arrested in May for poisoning wildlife were jailed for two years.<\/p>\n
The South African Mail and Guardian newspaper said poaching of elephants on the continent has increased substantially with a recent report saying at least 25,000 were killed last year.<\/p>\n
The report also said the illegal ivory trade had doubled since 2007.<\/p>\n
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