Elephant tramples mahout to death at Kottoor rehabilitation centre in Kerala

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A presumption    of the Kottoor Elephant Rehabilitation Centre successful  Thiruvananthapuram (file)

A presumption of the Kottoor Elephant Rehabilitation Centre successful Thiruvananthapuram (file)

An elephant astatine the Kottoor Elephant Rehabilitation Centre successful Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, trampled a mahout to decease connected Thursday (February 5, 2026).

The elephant, named Manu, reportedly crushed its archetypal mahout, Vishnu, to decease during the greeting bathing session. The elephant archetypal attacked the 25-year-old victim, a autochthonal of Venganoor, by throwing him into the water, subsequently trampling him to death.

Although Vishnu was taken to a infirmary aft different mahouts drove the elephant distant from the scene, the doctors declared him ‘brought dead’. His assemblage has been kept successful the morgue of the Aryanad Government Hospital, according to the police.

Published - February 05, 2026 01:28 p.m. IST

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