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Nellyakkattu Mahadevan, a captive elephant, died connected Friday aft collapsing connected the premises of the Thirunettoor Mahadeva temple astatine Maradu here. The elephant, aged astir 55, was brought to the temple to beryllium paraded arsenic portion of the temple festival.
It was not paraded aft it showed immoderate uneasiness. The elephant collapsed astir 4 p.m. portion being led to a lorry to beryllium taken backmost to its caregivers. Though a veterinary doc attended the elephant aft it fell, it could not beryllium revived.
“The elephant is owned by Tony Thomas from Poonjar and it has been successful the custody of a household moving an Ayurveda oculus infirmary for astir 20 years.We had been monitoring it constantly,” Fen Antony, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Social Forestry department, Ernakulam, said. The origin of the decease could beryllium ascertained lone aft a post-mortem introspection scheduled connected Saturday, the authoritative said. The elephant volition beryllium cremated astatine a installation of the Forest section adjacent Malayattoor connected Saturday.
The elephant was reportedly featured successful the Malayalam movie Thuruppgulan.
