Elephants trampled crush 3, old lady dies out of shock

Hazaribagh, Nov 15 (UNI) A group of elephants wreaked havoc in
three villages of Barkagaon of this district and killed three men.

The grandmother of one of the deceased died of shock after receiving
news of her grandson's death.

The first incident took place in Mirzapur village where one Habib
Ansari (27) was mowed down by a tusker. Ansari, along with his
friends, was trying to take a selfie with the tuskers when suddenly an
adult elephant attacked him and he died on the spot. His grandmother,
unable to bear the loss, died of shock.

Later the same group of elephants killed one Tulsi Mahto (45) in
Simratri village while another Lilu Sao (45) was crushed by the tuskers
in Dokatand village. Both the men died when they were trying to scare away the animals.

The group of 25 elephants, which includes three calves, has destroyed
paddy crop in more than a dozen villages of the Barkagaon block. The
villagers were in anger post the incident as they suffered losses worth lakhs of rupee.
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Bus ploughs through mishap victims, kills 3 from Kerala in Tamil Nadu

MADURAI/IDUKKI: Three men from Kerala were killed and 15 others injured when a private bus mowed them down at Nagampatti near Vedasandur in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district around 1 am on Sunday.
While two of the men were passengers of another bus that had overturned, the third was on a mini-truck and had stopped to help the accident victims. They were standing on the road when the private bus to Bengaluru from Kanyakumari ploughed through them.

Police said two of the deceased were aboard the bus, operated by Kallada Travels, from Pathanamthitta to Bengaluru overturned after the driver, suspected to have dozed off, lost control over the vehicle.

All the 39 passengers escaped, but two of them, Jinumon Jose, 28, of Parathanam near Mundakkayam and K K Rajan, 67, of Kattappana, were killed by the bus from Kanyakumari.

Byju aka Shaji, of Anchalummoodu in Kollam, was travelling in a mini truck, ferrying the statue of an elephant for a jeweller, when he saw the accident. He stopped to help the victims, and was run over by the second bus.

Police said while Rajan and Byju were killed at the scene, Jinumon died while being shifted to the Dindigul government hospital, where the injured were being treated.

It has been suspected that the attention of the driver of the second bus was diverted by the statue of the elephant in the truck.

Vedasandur police have registered a case.




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