Mahout seriously injured in alleged elephant attack

Idukki: A mahout was seriously injured after he was allegedly attacked by an elephant at a safari centre at Attappallam near Kumily in Idukki on Saturday evening.

The injured has been identified as Rajiv of Thopramkudy. Soon after the attack he was rushed to the Medical College Hospital,Kottayam.

According to police sources, the owner of the elephant safari centre informed them that the mahout was injured in a road accident. “But our primary inquiry revealed that the mahout was injured in an elephant attack,” said a police source.

It was on January 14, 2017, that Bhaskaran (55), a native of Karnataka, was trampled to death by an elephant in the same elephant safari centre at Attappallam.

M N Jayachandran, member, Kerala state animal welfare board, said, “I have submitted a complaint to Idukki district collector and the chief wildlife warden, seeking immediate probe in to the issue. Many of these elephant ride centres are illegal. Many centres are not registered and do not have licence. These illegal centres are posing threat to the lives of both tourists and mahouts”.

“On March 13 I had submitted a complaint to Idukki district collector and chief wild life warden to mandate Animal Welfare Board of India registration for elephant ride centres. But I didn’t get any reply from the officials, added Jayachandran.

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Farmer trampled to death in Theni

THENI: A 58-year-old farmer from a village near Andipatti in Theni district
was trampled to death by an elephant, when he was irrigating his farm on
Monday night.

The farmer, identified as Mayi, 58, from Arasaradi village went to tend his
field in the night. He did not notice a lone elephant wandering nearby. The
elephant attacked him when he went in close range to the animal. His
body was spotted by fellow villagers who alerted the forest officers. A
team of forest officers conducted an inspection at the spot. A police team
from Mayiladumparai station also rushed there. The body was shifted to

Theni Medical College Hospital, where a postmortem was conducted.
A separate probe by police and forest officials was under way.

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A 46 year-old tribal trampled to death by a wild elephant

Mysuru, Jan17(UNI) A 46-year-old tribal, who had been to the forest to collect firewood, was
trampled to death by a wild elephant which attacked him at Saraguru of H D Kote taluk in the
District.

Forest officials said on Thursday that the deceased has been identified as Jadiya of Kurnegala
Hadi of Saraguru. He had gone the forest to bring firewood on the occasion of Sankranti festival.

As he didn’t return home from Moleyuru forest, a team went to the forest in search of him and
found his dead body on Wednesday evening.

Saraguru police have registered a complaint and investigating.

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A 46 year-old tribal trampled to death by a wild elephant

Mysuru, Jan17(UNI) A 46-year-old tribal, who had been to the forest to collect firewood, was
trampled to death by a wild elephant which attacked him at Saraguru of H D Kote taluk in the District.

Forest officials said on Thursday that the deceased has been identified as Jadiya of Kurnegala
Hadi of Saraguru. He had gone the forest to bring firewood on the occasion of Sankranti festival.

As he didn’t return home from Moleyuru forest, a team went to the forest in search of him and
found his dead body on Wednesday evening.

Saraguru police have registered a complaint and investigating.
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