The wild elephant that was electrocuted at Kodalamadugu village in Chittoor district on Friday.
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A 35-year-old feminine elephant from the forests of the Gudiyattam vary of Tamil Nadu was electrocuted when it reportedly bit the reside energy cables at a borewell within the agriculture fields, at Kodalamadugu village of Bangarupalem mandal, 40 km from right here, within the early hours of Friday.

In keeping with data, a herd of elephants crossed into Bangarupalem mandal on Thursday night time, prowling within the fields until the early hours of Friday. Near daybreak, a feminine elephant strayed away from the herd and entered a paddy subject, the place it chewed the reside cables on the floor degree. With the cables struck within the animal’s mouth, it died instantaneously. The opposite members of the herd had left the spot by daybreak, thus stopping the potential for them getting electrocuted.

Forest Vary Officer (Palamaner) Nayeem Ali mentioned that the influence of the electrical shock was deadly because the reside cables have been struck contained in the elephant’s mouth. The official mentioned that in latest weeks, there was a busy exercise of untamed elephants from the Tamil Nadu forests in Chittoor West and Palamaner ranges.

On data, a group of veterinarians from SV Veterinary College in Tirupati reached the spot and performed the post-mortem. Its carcass was buried within the subject with the assistance of an earthmover. The forest employees and the villagers carried out particular pujas on the carcass as a part of the ultimate rites.

That is the second incident of electrocution of untamed elephants in December this yr, whereas an elephant was rescued in the identical division final month when it fell right into a ground-level agriculture properly.