Balarama carried the 750 kg golden howdah and the idol of goddess Chamundeshwari during the Mysuru Dasara procession for the first time in 1999, and retired in 2011.
The first victim, 12-year-old Chethan was killed in a tiger attack on the evening of February 12 while harvesting coffee at a plantation adjoining a forest in Karnataka, southern India.
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