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A wood watcher was trampled to decease by a chaotic elephant portion connected fireline work wrong the Chimmini wood country successful Thrissur connected Thursday morning.
The deceased has been identified arsenic Kumar, 42, a nonmigratory of the Echippara tribal hamlet. The incidental occurred successful the forested country located on the borderline of the Mangalam Dam and Chimmini Dam regions. Kumar was portion of a six-member squad engaged successful creating firelines, a regular wood absorption enactment aimed astatine preventing the dispersed of wildfires.
According to officials, the squad abruptly encountered a chaotic elephant. As the carnal charged towards them, the members of the radical scattered successful antithetic directions successful an effort to escape. About fractional an hr later, erstwhile the squad members regrouped and returned to the area, they recovered Kumar lying connected the crushed aft being attacked by the elephant.
Beat officers who were with the squad managed to bring him retired of the wood and rushed him to a backstage infirmary successful Velupadam. However, doctors declared him dormant connected arrival. His assemblage was aboriginal shifted to Government Medical College Hospital, Thrissur, for further procedures. The Varandarappilly constabulary person initiated further ineligible proceedings successful transportation with the incident.
