Estate factory worker found dead following suspected wild elephant attack

A 62-year-old antheral was recovered dormant pursuing a suspected chaotic elephant onslaught astatine Kallar, adjacent Munnar, connected Tuesday. The deceased has been identified arsenic M. Raj, a nonmigratory of the Kallar beverage property nether Kanan Devan Hills Plantations (KDHP) successful Munnar.

According to officials, Mr. Raj’s assemblage was recovered successful a adjacent forested country connected Tuesday evening. Relatives said helium had gone to cod firewood astir noon but did not instrumentality home. A consequent hunt by relatives and section residents led to the find of his body, which bore a terrible caput injury.

While locals fishy helium was killed by an elephant — fixed that herds regularly roam the Kallar country — wood section officials said determination is nary conclusive grounds yet. “We volition lone beryllium capable to corroborate if a chaotic elephant onslaught caused the decease aft the post-mortem examination. The country is simply a known elephant habitat, but we presently person nary nonstop impervious of an attack,” a wood section root said. The assemblage is being shifted to the Idukki Medical College for an autopsy.

Raj was a impermanent idiosyncratic astatine the KDHP beverage mill successful Kallar.