Lone elephant plays hide and seek with forest staff
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Officials intensify tracking efforts to prevent it from coming close to habitations
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Officials intensify tracking efforts to prevent it from coming close to habitations
After killing an elderly farmer and injuring a woman near Chittoor on Wednesday, the lone elephant has gone elusive, forcing the forest personnel to intensify tracking the animal to prevent it from moving close to fields and human habitations.
District Forest Officer (Chittoor East-Wildlife) G.G. Narentheran said that after attacking the two persons, the elephant moved towards the thin forest cover behind district Collectorate located on the Chittoor-Vellore highway. “After entering the poorly wooded terrain, the animal had become hard to pin down. As its movements have become vague, our personnel are constantly trying to track the elephant, expecting its return to the eastern side again,” he said.