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The Kerala Forest section connected Friday (November 7, 2025) deployed 2 kumki elephants to thrust distant a chaotic tusker wreaking havoc successful the residential areas of Kuthiran successful Thrissur district, officials said.
The chaotic elephant has been often straying into the Irumpupalam portion astatine Kuthiran for the past 2 weeks, creating panic among residents.
Last week, a wood authoritative was injured, and a section conveyance was destroyed during an effort to pursuit distant the tusker.
Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran, who visited the country recently, directed officials to instrumentality indispensable measures to guarantee nationalist safety.
According to wood officials, the elephant had entered residential areas connected some Wednesday and Thursday nights.
As portion of the cognition to thrust it backmost into the forest, 2 trained captive elephants — Bharath and Vikram — were brought from their campy successful Wayanad connected Friday.
Efforts are nether mode to find the tusker, which typically ventures into quality settlements astatine night.
Once tracked, the carnal volition beryllium guided backmost into the Peechi wood country with the assistance of the kumki elephants, officials said.
