In the wee hours of Tuesday, Mullakkal Balakrishnan noticed that the lorry in which he was being transported had stopped on the road. After waiting for a few minutes, he decided to jump off the lorry, and ran amok. An hour later, he fell into a marsh and has been trapped in it ever since.
Balakrishnan is a tusker owned by the Mullakkal temple under Travancore Devaswom Board in Alappuzha district, and the locals, mahouts, police, Devaswom representatives and officials of the forest department have been trying in vain to rescue him.
Rescue Operation is Underway
Mullakkal Balakrishnan was being transported to the temple to take part in a festival. Around 3 am, the driver of the lorry in which he was being taken stopped at Thuravoor to get some tea. The elephant broke the safety barriers at this point and jumped off the lorry.
Desperate to escape, Balakrishnan then ran amok for over an hour, and in the process, he damaged several vehicles and broke the compound wall of a house.
But as he got to a distance of 2 km from where the lorry stopped, the tusker fell into a marsh.
Local residents soon alerted the police, who rushed to the spot.
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