This national park tracked down rhino poachers thanks to a selfie

While India holds the notorious record of witnessing maximum selfie deaths in the world for two successive years, here's one instance where selfies have actually turned helpful.

The Assam Police has tracked down two poachers through the selfies clicked inside Kaziranga National Park in northeastern India. The duo had allegedly killed a female rhino in June last year, and were arrested on Wednesday in central Assam’s Nagaon district, the Hindustan Times reported.

The Kaziranga National Park is a UNESCO world heritage site and houses two-thirds of the planet's great one-horned rhinoceros. There are 2,401 rhinos in the sanctuary of which nearly 800 are females.

The report further added that one of the photographs had the poacher smiling with what appeared to be two automatic rifles fitted with silencers in the backdrop. Police said that their "informers" got hold of the images.

The rhino that they had killed was found by forest officials in the Bagori range, which is at the southern end of the park. The horn of the rhino was missing and six empty cartridges of 303 rifles were found along with the carcass. Incidentally, both of them have past cases of poaching registered against them.

Poaching of wild animals has been a concern in the area as well as in the rest of the country. It is more rampant than ever, say reports.

In Kaziranga alone, seven rhinoceros have reportedly been killed in the last seven months. The chief minister of Assam has admitted that the forest department or the government alone could not put an end to it, and people in and around the region would have to play a proactive role.

And now we have are selfies as recorded evidence!