Eight-year-old tusker falls into open well, rescued

KRISHNAGIRI: An eight-year-old male elephant, which fell into an open
well in the reserve forest along the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border on
Friday night, was rescued after four hours of struggle on Saturday
morning.

According to forest officials, the well was not more than 30 ft-deep and
farmers of Uppupallam village near Hosur had been using water from it for
irrigation.

“The tusker might have fallen into the well due to lack of visibility. Villagers
alerted us on Saturday around 6.30am. Using earthmover, we created a
slope to help the tusker come out of the well. As soon as it came up, the
elephant headed to the reserve forest. We didn’t find any injury and the elephant looked fine. We are monitoring its
movement,” said a forest official.

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