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The Forest Department connected Thursday brought 2 kumkis from Theppakadu elephant campy of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve to Coimbatore for an cognition to seizure a antheral chaotic elephant adjacent Thondamuthur successful the district.
Officials attached to the Department said that kumkis Bomman and Wasim were brought to Kempanur colony adjacent Thondamuthur for the operation.
Two kumkis from Kozhikamuthi elephant campy of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), namely Chinnathambi and Kapildev, were already stationed astatine Kempanur.
A squad of veterinarians comprising Additional Director (retd) of Veterinary Services N.S. Manoharan, N. Kalaivanan, K. Rajesh Kumar and S. Vennila are portion of the operation.
“The tusker comes retired of the wood lone astatine nighttime and returns earlier dawn. Trackers are monitoring the tusker for the close accidental to tranquillise it,” an serviceman said.
The cognition to seizure the tusker, called by locals arsenic Rolex, started implicit a period agone and it came to a halt connected September 20 aft the elephant attacked Forest Veterinary Officer E. Vijayaraghavan from ATR. The efforts resumed connected October 13. The tusker is believed to person killed astatine slightest 4 persons successful the past respective months.
