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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.”
Forest officials suspect elephant might have moved to Kerala
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It could have been regularly crossing the border between the Nilgiris and Nilambur
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Forest staff checking the camera set up to monitor the movement of wild elephants near Gudalur on Friday. | Photo Credit:
M. Sathyamoorthy
It could have been regularly crossing the border between the Nilgiris and Nilambur
As the operation to tranquillise the wild elephant nicknamed ‘Shankar’ entered its fifth day at Gudalur in the Nilgiris on Friday, Forest Department officials suspect that the animal might have moved into Kerala.
A senior Forest Department official said the tusker was not spotted anywhere within Gudalur on Friday. As per the inputs from a team that visited Nilambur in Kerala, the elephant was spotted within the Nilambur Forest Range in November. Hence, it is now being looked into whether the elephant regularly moved between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, he said.