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A ‘bachelor herd’ of three chaotic elephants that strayed retired of forests and stationed astatine Keeranatham connected the outskirts of Coimbatore metropolis connected Thursday morning, moved astir 30 km further to Kakapalayam adjacent Annur arsenic the Forest Department unit attempted to thrust them backmost into the forests successful an overnight operation.
The unit chased the 3 tuskers towards Mettupalayam Road connected Thursday nighttime successful a bid to marque them transverse the arterial Mettupalayam Road and thrust them backmost to Periyanaickenpalayam wood scope limits, astir 15 km distant from Keeranatham. Power proviso was chopped astatine galore locations to forestall the elephants from coming into interaction with low-lying powerlines successful semi municipality areas.
Forest Department officials said that the unit managed to divert the elephants to a location, 2 km disconnected Mettupalayam Road. However, they took a agelong detour of astir 25 km towards west, crossing Sathyamangalam Road, to scope Kakapalayam, wherever they sought structure successful a grove of eucalyptus trees.
The unit surrounded the grove to forestall the tuskers from moving further during the time connected Friday. They besides prevented members of the nationalist from gathering astatine the location.
Officials with the Forest Department said that efforts to thrust the elephants resumed connected Friday night.
