Elephant with broken leg keeps village awake

Affectionately named Sidda by forest authorities, the tusker broke its front right leg and now spends much of its time floating in the backwaters of Manchanabele dam.

A 45-year-old wild elephant — blind, lost and crippled by a leg injury — has entrenched itself in a dam around 30 km from Bengaluru, and has become the focus of local villagers amid an effort by forest authorities to rehabilitate him. The elephant drifted into the dam some 40 days ago.
Affectionately named Sidda by forest authorities, the tusker broke its front right leg and now spends much of its time floating in the backwaters of Manchanabele dam.

The Karnataka forest department officials have decided to summon veterinary doctors from Chennai, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram to look at Sidda and find a way to rescue him and take him to Bannerghatta National Park on the outskirts of Bengaluru.

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