Tamil Nadu: Crop-raiding wild elephant Chinna Thambi captured in Tirupur

Crop-raiding wild elephant Chinna Thambi’s free run in non-forest areas for 13 days has come to an end on Friday as forest department personnel captured it from near Madathukulam in Tirupur district on Friday. It took more than six hours for forest officials to capture the 25-year-old elephant. After the Madras high court permitted the state government to capture Chinna Thambi, the department deployed more than 100 personnel and a three-member veterinarian team to capture the elephant with the support of two kumkis -- Khaleem and Suyambu. On Friday morning, the forest personnel began the operation when Chinna Thambi was found in a private sugarcane field at Kannadipudur, where it had been camping for the last five days.

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