The archetypal victim, identified arsenic 45-year-old Manu of Noolpuzha successful Wayanad district, was killed portion helium was walking location Monday night. (Representational Photo)
Two radical were trampled to death by chaotic elephants successful Kerala successful 24 hours, taking the full fig of specified deaths successful the authorities truthful acold this twelvemonth to eight.
The archetypal victim, identified arsenic 45-year-old Manu of Noolpuzha successful Wayanad district, was killed portion helium was walking location Monday night. His assemblage was recovered successful a paddy tract Tuesday morning. Later, successful a abstracted incidental that took spot successful Idukki village, 45-year-old Sophia Ismail was attacked by a chaotic elephant portion she was walking from her location successful Peruvanthanam colony to a adjacent watercourse to instrumentality a bath.
In some cases, aggravated section residents prevented authorities from moving the bodies of the victims arsenic they demanded enactment against rising cases of attacks from chaotic animals.
The deaths of respective radical from tribal communities successful caller months successful specified attacks, which person been uncommon successful the past, person raised alarm among those who unrecorded successful the vicinity of wood areas. Just past month, 4 tribal persons – 2 successful Malappuram and 2 successful Wayanad – person died successful attacks from tigers and elephants.
The authorities past twelvemonth declared human-animal struggle a state-specific disaster. On Monday, the Cabinet decided to springiness compensation of Rs 4 lakh each for victims of snake-bite from the authorities catastrophe alleviation fund.