Special teams formed to tackle jumbo menace
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Forest fire could have forced the animals to move nearer to plains: official
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Forest officials providing ex-gratia to kin of a watchman, who was killed in jumbo attack on Sunday, at Kalyanapuram in Chittoor district on Monday.
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Forest fire could have forced the animals to move nearer to plains: official
Special teams comprising forest and police personnel were formed in Puttur and Karveti Nagaram forest ranges to track the movement of two wild elephants, after they killed an elderly watchman at a mango orchard on Sunday.
Panic grips farmers after elephants kill watchman
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May 10, 2021 08:17 IST
He reportedly tried to drive them away from field when he was pushed to the ground
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He reportedly tried to drive them away from field when he was pushed to the ground
In yet another incident of the elephants of the Bachelors’ Group attacking humans, a 75-year-old watchman at a mango orchard was killed when he reportedly tried to drive two elephants away from the field at Nettam village in Puttur mandal on Sunday.
This is the third incident and first casualty in the eastern mandals in the last four months after a three-member Bachelors’ Group of elephants had crossed into Chittoor district from Vellore in Tamil Nadu in the first week of January. The trio has since been occasionally raiding the crops in the plain areas of Nagari, Puttur, Narayanavanam and Karveti Nagaram mandals and has taken shelter behind hillocks and sparse jungles.
Youth injured in jumbo attack in Chittoor
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Repeated appeals by villagers to relocate the herd go in vain
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Repeated appeals by villagers to relocate the herd go in vain
Tension gripped several villages of Vedurukuppam mandal of Chittoor district, after a youth was injured in the attack by wild elephants in the early hours of Monday. The youth, who was attacked by the elephant while working on a farm at Tallabailu village, was rushed to SVRR Government Hospital in Tirupati.
At the same time, a house in the village caught fire when some youth burnt fireworks in a bid to prevent the elephants from nearing the human habitations.
Youth injured in elephant attack in Chittoor
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The youth while attending the farm work at Tallabailu village came under the elephant attack.
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The youth while attending the farm work at Tallabailu village came under the elephant attack. Tension gripped several villages of Vedurukuppam mandal of Chittoor district, after a youth was injured in the attack by wild elephants in the early hours of Monday. The youth while attending the farm work at Tallabailu village came under the jumbo attack, and he was rushed to the SVRR Government Hospital at Tirupati.
At the same time, a house in the village had caught fire when some youth took to fireworks in a bid to prevent the elephants from entering the human habitations.
Jumbo trio give sleepless nights to officials, farmers
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Efforts to drive them back into forests go in vain.
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A forest personnel observing the footprints of wild elephants along the bund of a water body near Puttur in Chittoor district on Saturday.
Efforts to drive them back into forests go in vain.
A three-member herd of wild elephants, which crossed into Chittoor district from Tamil Nadu three weeks ago, is now lingering at a denuded forest stretch between Vadamalapeta and Tirupati, giving sleepless nights to farmers and forest officials.
The elephant herd, known in local circles as the ‘Bachelor’s Group’, is now over 150 km away from its habitat in Tamil Nadu. Forest officials tried in vain to drive the herd back into the forests when it entered the outskirts of Chittoor municipality. The herd continued to advance towards the eastern mandals with poor forest cover, scattered amidst agriculture fields and villages. For the last o