Udhagamandalam: Hours after a woman tea estate worker lost her life in an elephant attack in the Nilgiris, forest minister K Ramachandran on Thursday directed the forest department to chase the elephant herds roaming in the residential areas of Pandalur taluk away into the deep forest.
According to a forest officer, 55-year-old Poonkodi, who was working with the Tamil Nadu Tea Plantation Corporation (Tantea), was trampled to death by a wild tusker around 9pm on Wednesday when she was on her way to the toilet close to her quarters at Pandalur tea estate. “Her body was sent to the nearby government hospital, where postmortem was performed on Thursday.”