Coimbatore: A wild elephant trampled a 65-year-old man to death at Dhayanur in Coimbatore district on Saturday evening.
The deceased has been identified as M Palanisamy of Dhayanur. He was grazing his goats near the reserve forest boundary at the Tholampalayam east beat of the Periyanaickenpalayam forest range when a wild elephant attacked him around 5 pm, resulting in his death on the spot.
Locals alerted forest frontline personnel, who rushed to the spot and sent the body to the Mettupalayam Govt Hospital for postmortem.
The deceased has been identified as M Palanisamy of Dhayanur. He was grazing his goats near the reserve forest boundary at the Tholampalayam east beat of the Periyanaickenpalayam forest range when a wild elephant attacked him around 5 pm, resulting in his death on the spot.
Locals alerted forest frontline personnel, who rushed to the spot and sent the body to the Mettupalayam Govt Hospital for postmortem.
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