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They had crossed into dist. from TN forests; raided several crops in villages
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A herd of wild elephants from Tamil Nadu seen climbing down a hillock near Somala in Chittoor district.
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They had crossed into dist. from TN forests; raided several crops in villages
After a three-day long operation, forest officials on Sunday night succeeded in driving a 13-member herd of wild elephants back into the forests of Palamaner range from Bangaru Tiruttani hillock in Somala mandal, where they had been sheltering since a month.
The herd, said to be from the forests of Tamil Nadu, had crossed into Chittoor district at Kuppam and later moved towards Palamaner range, before finally entering the Punganur range. They had reportedly passed through several forest-fringe villages in the three mandals in their month-long sojourn, giving tense moments to the farmers. The herd kept raiding the seasonal crops at the villages of Nadimpalle, So
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Action plan chalked out to end man-animal conflict: forest dept. official
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Panchayat Raj Minister Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy presenting a cheque towards exgratia to the kin of a jumbo-attack victim in Tirupati.
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Action plan chalked out to end man-animal conflict: forest dept. official
Divisional Forest Officer (Chittoor West) S. Ravi Shankar announced that an ex-gratia of ₹5 lakh each was provided to the family members of three victims who had died in the attacks of wild elephants in Kuppam and Chittoor ranges in recent months.
Speaking to the media here on Wednesday, the DFO said that Panchayat Raj Minister Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy had distributed the cheques to the family members of Sonia and Narayanamma of Kuppam range, and Satish Raju. While the two women farmers were trampled to death in their fields by the crop raiding elephants, the third, a driver with the forest department at Chittoor range, was kille