Pachyderm attacks: Pawan Kalyan directs officials to track routes of wild elephants

After elephants trampled to death another farmer in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan directed officials to regularly track the routes of elephant herds and alert farmers.

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Pawan Kalyan, who is also the state Forest and Environment Minister, expressed grief over the death of a farmer in an attack by an elephant herd.

On learning about the tragic death of farmer Ramakrishna Raju, a farmer in Kothuru village in Chittoor district, the Deputy Chief Minister gathered details from Forest Department officials about the incident.

He directed that routes of elephant herds be tracked regularly and that prior information be provided to farmers in those areas.