Tusker attacks two cars of Tangedco employees at Navamalai in ATR
3 years ago

Tusker attacks two cars of Tangedco employees at Navamalai in ATR

The Hindu  

Three employees of the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited had a narrow escape after a tusker attacked two cars at Navamalai in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve on Sunday evening. ATR authorities said a 49-year-old man who drove one of the cars suffered minor injuries while two others who travelled in the other car escaped unhurt. The incident took place around 6.30 p.m. on Sunday when the three Tangedco employees, who work at the Aliyar power house at Navamalai, were travelling in two cars through a forest area that falls under Pollachi forest range of ATR. S. Ramasubramanian, Conservator of Forests and Field Director of ATR, said, “luckily, the Forest Department staff were present at the place and they could save the three persons.” He added that the tusker was not in musth and it seemed to have attacked the vehicles in response to the close encounter it had with them.

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Narrow escape for U.K. tourists as wild elephant attacks car
1 month, 1 week ago

Narrow escape for U.K. tourists as wild elephant attacks car

The Hindu  

A group of foreign tourists from the United Kingdom had a miraculous escape after a wild tusker attacked their moving car at Munnar on Saturday. When the vehicle reached Signal Point, a wild tusker, locally called Ottakompan, came out of an eucalyptus plantation and charged at the car, kicking and overturning it, they said quoting local people. “The doors of …

Three Tangedco staff escape as tusker pushes SUV on Aliyar - Navamalai road
2 months ago

Three Tangedco staff escape as tusker pushes SUV on Aliyar - Navamalai road

The Hindu  

Three employees of the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited escaped with minor injuries after the SUV they were travelling was pushed by a wild elephant on Aliyar - Navamalai road near Pollachi in Coimbatore district on Thursday. According to the Forest Department, the incident took place around 11.30 a.m. when the three persons were returning from the power …

Group narrowly escapes wild elephant attack in Kerala's Athirapally
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Group narrowly escapes wild elephant attack in Kerala's Athirapally

India Today  

A group of people had a close brush with danger when a wild elephant charged at the car they were in. Spotting the elephant about 100 m away, the men thought they were safe, until the tusker suddenly charged at their vehicle. Police later confirmed the incident, while locals identified the tusker as ‘Murivalan’, a rogue elephant infamous for straying …

Lone tusker attacks three persons near Coimbatore, villagers cautioned
1 year ago

Lone tusker attacks three persons near Coimbatore, villagers cautioned

The Hindu  

A lone male elephant that entered human habitations near Madukkarai in Coimbatore district attacked three persons, including an elderly woman and a minor girl in the early hours of Wednesday. As the tusker continued to enter villages on Wednesday night and in the early hours of Thursday, the Forest Department has cautioned villagers about its presence. Following instructions from District …

Man attacked by tusker Arikompan two days ago dies in Theni hospital
1 year, 9 months ago

Man attacked by tusker Arikompan two days ago dies in Theni hospital

The Hindu  

Janitor Palraj of Cumbum Municipal limits in Theni district, who was attacked by the lone tusker Arikompan two days ago, died at the Theni Government Medical College and Hospital on Monday night Doctors at the government hospital said Palraj had suffered head injury in the attack by the elephant. Meanwhile, Forest Department officials led by Chief Conservator Padmavathi were monitoring …

Tusker Arikompan enters residential areas in Cumbum; power, transport suspended
1 year, 10 months ago

Tusker Arikompan enters residential areas in Cumbum; power, transport suspended

The Hindu  

Wild tusker Arikompan had entered Cumbum in Theni district, and was seen roaming through the town on May 27 morning, after being spotted near a human habitation in Kumily, Idukki on May 26. Arikompan has been making the rounds along the Kerala -Tamil Nadu border since April 29, when it was released into the Periyar Tiger Reserve. Watch | Elephant …

Tusker Arikompan caught, to be released in Periyar sanctuary
1 year, 10 months ago

Tusker Arikompan caught, to be released in Periyar sanctuary

The Hindu  

A day after they set out to capture and translocate wild tusker Arikompan, the members of the special task force of the Forest department succeeded in the mission after a gruelling day-and-night operation on Saturday. Tranquilised and hemmed in by four kumki elephants, the tusker put up stiff resistance but finally allowed itself to be pushed into the loading bay …

Operation to drive back single-tusker into forest in Talavadi begins
2 years, 8 months ago

Operation to drive back single-tusker into forest in Talavadi begins

The Hindu  

With the 10-member elephant tracking team tracing the single-tusker inside the forest area, the Forest Department began the operation to drive back the tusker deep into the forest here on Friday. In the morning, a team comprising personnel from ATR and STR entered the forest and found the tusker three km inside the reserve forest, near Eripuram village. Based on …

Chennai: Another wild crop-raiding tusker gets translocated
6 years, 2 months ago

Chennai: Another wild crop-raiding tusker gets translocated

Deccan Chronicle  

Coimbatore: Within a span of 38 days, yet another wild elephant was captured in the forest division here on Friday, in an operation named ‘Chinnathambi Gaja yatra’, that was radio collared for translocation. Following continuous petitions by some farmers and brick chamber owners of Thadagam valley, politicians pressurised the forest department to capture the two so-called ‘crop raiding’ tuskers, that …

7 forest staff escape as tusker topples jeep
8 years, 8 months ago

7 forest staff escape as tusker topples jeep

Deccan Chronicle  

COIMBATORE: As many as seven Forest department staff had a miraculous escape as a wild tusker toppled their jeep, smashed the headlights of the vehicle near Mangarai check post at Anaikatti near Coimbatore on Friday night. Following an alert that a herd of elephants was frequenting the Veerapandipirivu area near Mangarai check post, the Forest guards and anti-poaching watchers went …

Two killed in tusker attack in Bengal
11 years, 7 months ago

Two killed in tusker attack in Bengal

India TV News  

Kolkata: Two people were killed and two others injured when they were attacked by an elephant in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, an official said Wednesday. "In the last 72 hours two persons have been killed and two others injured after being attacked by an elephant in three different incidents on the outskirts of Rupnarayan forest division," Divisional Forest Officer …

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