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.
Elderly man killed, woman injured in jumbo attack
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Staff deployed to monitor its movement
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The lone elephant seen at a sugarcane field near Chittoor on Wednesday after fatally attacking a villager.
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Staff deployed to monitor its movement
An elderly man was killed and a woman was critically injured when a wild elephant attacked them at Bommavaripalle village of G.D. Nellore mandal, 15 km from here, on Wednesday.
Divisional Forest Officer (Chittoor Wildlife East) G.G. Narentheran said that two elephants were on the move towards the west division after leaving the Nagari plains of Karveti Nagaram and Puttur ranges. In this process, the two got separated. While one elephant crossed into the forests near Kanipakam and entered the West division, another was still lingering on the outskirts of Chittoor.
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