Andhra man killed by wild elephant at private farmhouse near Coonoor

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A 35-year-old man from Andhra Pradesh was killed by a wild elephant at Penstock Kundha near Coonoor on Friday night.

The victim was S Sukunda Rao, a caretaker who had worked for six years at a private farmhouse near Penstock.

The incident occurred at 11.20 pm when the elephant entered a banana plantation. Rao woke up after the animal had damaged the compound wall of the farmhouse and was foraging from the plantation. The elephant attacked him when he approached it.

Following his screams, fellow workers came to his aid and took him to the Nilgiris Medical College and Hospital where he was declared dead.

His body was handed over to his relatives after postmortem. The forest department provided an initial compensation of ₹50,000 to the man's family on Saturday.

Elephant found dead in MTR

A 50-year-old female elephant was found dead near Singara Pirivu in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) on Friday evening.

A postmortem conducted on Saturday indicated the animal might have fallen 150 metres from the rocky terrain of the Glenmorgan Town camera grid tower near Singara Pirivu.