Friday, February 01, 2019

Tusker Karthik dies of bee attack at Dubare elephant camp


Madikeri, Feb 1 (UNI) A nine year old male elephant ‘Karthik” died as bee attacked it at dubare
elephant camp near Kushalanagara in the district. Karthik had mauled two mahouts to death
last year.

Forest officials said on Friday that Karthik, the calf of elephant Vijya of the camp had killed
mahouts Annu and Mani, recently he had also attacked mahout Naveen and worker Chandru ,
leaving them seriously injured. Naveen had to undergo an intestinal surgery. now he has been
discharged and department had paid him Rs 2 lakh as compensation.

After the incidents, the elephant tied and was kept in isolation in an attempt to control is
aggressive nature.

The postmortem was done by Dr Mujeeb who explained the cause of death. Officials said that
Elephant was stung by forest fees but nobody was aware of it. the bleeds had sung the jumbo on
its rear. It was when 'Karthik' attacked his mahouts two weeks ago that they released the jumbo
was unwell and in pain because of the sting which had got infected. Though it was treated by
experts it could not recover and died on Thursday in the camp, the officials added.

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