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Sunday, January 11, 2015

ELEPHANTS STRIKE TERROR IN PATHANAMTHITTA,PALAKKAD

ELEPHANTS STRIKE TERROR IN PATHANAMTHITTA,PALAKKAD

ആന ഡോക്ടര്‍ ഗോപകുമാര്‍ ആനയുടെ കുത്തേറ്റ് മരിച്ചു
In a Rage: Temple elephant Narayanankutty goes on the rampage during an annual ceremony of the Puthenkavumala Mahadevar Temple at Nellad, near Vallamkulam, in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala on Sunday afternoon. The tusker uprooted a few trees, crushed a car parked by the wayside and toppled a mini-lorry. It later quenched its thirst from a bucket kept in front of a shop. The elephant was tethered after a three-hour ordeal.Two elephants ran amok in Palakkad district and another in Pathanamthitta during temple festivals on Sunday. Four persons were injured in Palakkad, while in Pathanamthitta, the elephant damaged two vehicles and uprooted trees.The pachyderm, Narayanankutty, ran amok at the annual ‘parackezhunnellippu' ceremony of the Puthenkavumala Mahadevar temple, at Nellad, near Vallamkulam, in Pathanamthitta at 1.30 p.m. on Sunday. It was tranquillised and tethered after three hours by an Elephant Squad team, led by C. Gopakumar, veterinary surgeon.
The mahout had a narrow escape after the animal shoved him aside with its trunk. The elephant briskly marched down the road and ambushed a car parked nearby. The vehicle got crushed in the offensive. It then went on to drag a mini-lorry for over 50 metres before toppling the vehicle. The animal also uprooted some coconut trees on the wayside.Dr. Gopakumar said the elephant was not in musth. The elephant had killed five mahouts earlier. It was in the news recently after it crushed to death a mahout near Alappuzha before walking all the way to its ‘home' temple at Nannoor.A police team led by Circle Inspector (Thiruvalla) Vinu Varghese and sub-inspector G. Santhoshkumar reached the spot and blocked vehicular traffic on T.K. Road. A large number of people had assembled by then. Traffic remained disrupted for over two hours.In Palakkad, the incident occurred at the festival at Parakkoottikavu, near Kulappully, at night. The people injured are Arun, 24, of Thonurkara; Pushpan, 34, of Palakkad; Mohandas, 55, of Karakkodi, Mundukotturkurissi, and Aneesh, 18, of Kootanad.They have been admitted to a private hospital at Vaniyamkulam, the police said. They were injured while trying to escape. The elephants were brought under control by the mahouts and the police.

എലിഫന്റ് സ്‌ക്വാഡ് അംഗം ഡോ. സി.ഗോപകുമാര്‍ ആനയുടെ കുത്തേറ്റ് മരിച്ചു. പത്തനംതിട്ടയിലെ പെരുമ്പെട്ടിയില്‍ വെച്ചാണ് കോട്ടാങ്ങല്‍ ഗംഗാപ്രസാദ് എന്ന ആന ഡോ. ഗോപകുമാറിനെ കുത്തിയത്. മയക്കുവെടി വെക്കാനുള്ള ശ്രമത്തിനിടെയാണ് ഡോക്ടര്‍ക്ക് ആനയുടെ കുത്തേറ്റത്. ആനയിടഞ്ഞതിനെത്തുടര്‍ന്ന് തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തായിരുന്ന ഡോക്ടറെ വിളിച്ചു വരുത്തുകയായിരുന്നു. ആദ്യം മയക്കുവെടി വെച്ചെങ്കിലും ആന മയങ്ങാത്തതിനെത്തുടര്‍ന്ന് ബൈക്കില്‍ പിന്തുടര്‍ന്ന് വീണ്ടും മയക്കുവെടി വെക്കാനുള്ള ശ്രമത്തിനിടെയാണ് ഡോക്ടറെ ആന ആക്രമിച്ചത്. പെട്ടന്ന് പിന്‍തിരിഞ്ഞ ആന ഡോക്ടറെ ആക്രമിച്ചു.ആസ്പത്രിയിലേക്ക് കൊണ്ടുപോകും വഴിയാണ് ഡോക്ടര്‍ മരിച്ചത്.

                           Prof. John Kurakar

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