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Tamil Nadu:,On Saturday, an official said that a 70-year-old woman was trampled to death by a rogue elephant in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve. After receiving information about this incident local police reached on the spot.
According to police, today morning, the elephant was in search of water and food and entered the Neethalapuram forest area under Thalavady forest range in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR).
Official said that the elephant entered some sugarcane fields and damaged standing crops and then entered Neethalapuram village. The deceased was identified as Kalamma.
Police officials said that when the victim, 70-year-old woman Kalamma, came out of her house, the rogue elephant attacked her and trampled her to death on the spot.
The panicked neighbours chased the elephant away after hearing the woman’s screams. After receiving information about this, the Thalavady police rushed to the spot and took out the body and sent it to the government hospital in Thalavady.
The police said that people of the area gathered at the hospital and urged the forest department to dig a deep trench around the private fertile land to save crops and human lives from wild animals, especially elephants.
After this incident, Villagers told the police that this is the third incident and a total of three people have been killed by elephants in the area in two months.
