Tusker rescued from muddy pond near Alur

HASSAN: A two-hour operation on Monday culminated in the safe rescue of a tusker stuck in a slush-filled pond at Madhihalli of Alur taluk, Hassan district.According to K Harish , assistant conservator of forests, Hassan division, the tusker, around 12 years old, may have fallen into the pond on Sunday evening.

"It was trumpeting through the night.

As this area is infamous for animal-human conflict, we've advised locals not to venture out of their homes at night.

Early Monday morning, they rushed to the pond where they found the elephant trying to come out of the slush and alerted us.

We rushed there with a JCB ," he said.He added that the tusker was not violent.

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Elephant dies due to starvation after being stuck in pond

Kodagu (Karnataka), Mar 18 (ANI): An elephant in Karnataka?s Kodagu died due to starvation after it got stuck in the pond for more than 12 hours. The forest officials had arrived to rescue the tusker, however, due to starvation; the creature couldn't survive for long.

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