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A 30-year-old antheral chaotic elephant was electrocuted successful a mango orchard adjoining the Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary, adjacent Gangavaram mandal office of Palamaner Assembly constituency successful Chittoor district, connected Monday (January 19, 2026).
The villagers had informed the wood officials that the chaotic elephant was spotted moving successful the vicinity of fractional a twelve villages, crisscrossing contiguous mandals of Palamaner and Gangavaram for the past mates of weeks. Occasionally, it would stray distant from a herd, which had precocious crossed into the sanctuary portion from the neighbouring State of Karnataka.
While roaming successful the mango orchard, the elephant reportedly lifted its trunk to propulsion down a flowered subdivision and came successful interaction with a unrecorded overhead powerfulness line.
District Forest Officer (DFO) G. Subburaj told The Hindu that the incidental came to the department’s announcement astir 1.30 pm. Overseeing the arrangements for the autopsy of the chaotic jumbo, the DFO said that the carcass would beryllium buried astatine the spot connected Tuesday (January 20).
This jumbo casualty comes arsenic the archetypal number successful 2026, preceded by the decease of 3 elephants successful 2025, taking the full to astir 30 successful the past 1 decade.
Meanwhile, farmers informed the wood officials to initiate urgent steps successful coordination with the APSPDCL to regenerate the debased lying powerfulness cables crossed the fields, and summation the tallness of the electrical transformers from the crushed level.
