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flag Italian police probe second tusk damage to Bernini's Rome elephant statue, with a fragment recovered.

flag Italian authorities are investigating the second time in a decade that the left tusk of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s 17th-century Elephant and Obelisk statue in Rome’s Piazza della Minerva was damaged, with an 11-centimeter marble fragment recovered near the monument. flag The piece, added during a 1977 restoration, had previously been lost in 2016 due to vandalism. flag Police are reviewing surveillance footage to determine the cause, with no suspects identified. flag The sculpture, commissioned by Pope Alexander VII and depicting an elephant supporting an ancient Egyptian obelisk, remains a popular tourist attraction near the Pantheon.

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