A wood veterinarian attached to Anamalai Tiger Reserve sustained injuries erstwhile a chaotic elephant helium attempted to tranquilise attacked him astatine a backstage onshore successful Parameswaranpalayam adjacent Thondamuthur connected Saturday morning.
Vijayaraghavan, a subordinate of the squad constituted to seizure the elephant wandering successful the country for the past fewer days was reportedly attacked erstwhile helium was attempting to sprout a dart, authoritative sources said.
The doc was admitted to a backstage infirmary successful Coimbatore metropolis for intensive attraction of bony fractures. The wood squad is continuing its pursuit of the chaotic elephant named ‘Rolex’, sources added.
