NE NEWS SERVICE
UDHAGAMANDALAM, JAN 19
A seriously injured elephant, under treatment at a town in Nilgiris district, died on Tuesday after it was translocated to the nearby Theppakkadu elephant camp, forest department officials said.
The 40-year-old elephant was found lying near Maravakandi dam on January 15 with a cut ear and was being treated in that town. However the wound worsened and there was puss formation, following which forest department officials and a veterinarian kept the pachyderm under observation and decided to shift it to Theppakkadu camp.
They used trained elephants to get the pachyderm onto a truck for the journey of about 20 km. But soon after reaching there, the elephant breathed its last, the sources said.
