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A 55-year-old antheral who was injured successful a chaotic elephant onslaught precocious connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) nighttime successful the Bitherkad wood scope successful Gudalur died from his injuries aboriginal Thursday (June 4) morning, the Forest section confirmed.
The deceased was identified arsenic M. Sugumaran, a nonmigratory of Nilakottai successful Bitherkad. Sugumaran was reportedly returning location from a store erstwhile helium was attacked by a chaotic elephant connected Tuesday night. On proceeding his screams, section residents rushed to his assistance and managed to pursuit distant the animal.
The contiguous aftermath of the incidental was caught connected video by the dash cam of a passing vehicle, showing an injured Sugumaran being attended to by section residents. They past managed to instantly unreserved him to the authorities infirmary successful Sultan Bathery successful Kerala for treatment.
Forest section officials said that helium was unchangeable until Wednesday (June 3) evening. However, his information deteriorated and helium died from his injuries astatine astir 1.30 a.m connected Thursday morning. Officials said that a compensation of ₹10 lakh would beryllium handed implicit instantly to Sugumaran’s adjacent of kin.
They added that residents were being urged not to measurement retired of their homes unnecessarily aft dusk and that efforts to thrust distant chaotic elephants approaching quality settlements were being taken.
In a abstracted incident, a 54-year-old antheral was injured aft a leopard accidentally entered his location successful Kolipalam adjacent Gudalur. Local residents managed to rescue the victim, Gajendran, and rushed him to a infirmary wherever his injuries were said to beryllium non-life threatening.
