IDUKKI, INDIA (AFP) – Indian forest officials have tranquillised and relocated a rice-loving wild tusker elephant that killed at least six people, media reports said.
The male elephant – dubbed Arikomban, or “rice-tusker” – was infamous for raiding shops for rice and grains in the southern state of Kerala.
On Saturday, a team of 150 forest officials caught the elephant, which resisted its captors even after being hit with five tranquilliser shots, the Indian Express newspaper reported.
With its legs tied and eyes bound with a cloth, it was finally pushed and nudged by four kumki elephants – trained elephants used to capture others – into a truck.
