Elephant tramples 4 people to death in Coimbatore

June 2, 2017

Coimbatore, Jun 2: Four people, including a 12-year-old girl and two women, were trampled to death by a tusker at Ganeshapuram and Vellalore in Coimbatore city in the early hours of Friday.tusker

The deceased have been identified as Gayathri, 12, daughter of Vijayakumar of Ganeshapuram, P Palanisamy, 73, of Kambar Street at Vellalore, B Nagarathinam, 50, and her friend M Jothimani, 68, of Vellalore.

The tusker came out of the forest on Wednesday night and attacked two anti-poaching watchers near BK Pudur. The tusker was sent back to the forest in the early hours of Thursday. Two special teams were deployed in Madukkarai forest on Thursday night to monitor the elephant.

However, the elephant -- aged between 20 and 25 -- came out of the forest and entered residential area at Ganeshapuram near Podanur in the early hours of Friday.

Gayathri, her father Vijayakumar, mother Thangamani and two of her siblings were sleeping in the front yard of their house. Around 3.15am, they heard the sound of an elephant and were taken by surprise as it entered the portico and attacked them.

The tusker first caught hold of Vijaykumar and threw him away. Later, it attacked Thangamani, who tried to safeguard her three children. By the time Vijaykumar recovered and tried to rescue his family, the elephant had attacked Gayathri and trampled her.

Thangamani could protect her two other children -- Rithika, 7, and Vetrimaran, 4 - from the elephant.

"We were completely shocked. We did not know what to do. We were sleeping. The elephant tried to enter the house and attacked us. We are devastated. My leg is hurt and my husband's arm is badly injured," said Thangamani who was inconsolable.

The relatives of the victims said that the area where they lived was extremely dangerous and lacked facilities. "We have no toilets or any other service in the area. We had to wait for over an hour to take Gayathri to hospital. She was alive till 4.30am. But lack of ambulance and transport facilities were the reasons for the loss of her life. We took her to the nearby private hospital in Sundarapuram where she was not treated at all. We had to wait. The doctors did not even give her first aid," alleged Thangamani.

Gayathri was later taken to another private hospital where she was declared brought dead.

Three more deaths

Meanwhile, the elephant travelled from Ganeshapuram for nearly 5km and reached Vellalore. Around 5am, it attacked Palanisamy, a farmer who had come to the field to relive himself.

Palanisamy, who He noticed some wild boars in the field, threw stones to drive them away, without noticing the elephant standing there. The elephant attacked Palanisamy. The elephant threw him away and trampled him to death.

The elephant later attacked Nagarathinam and Jothimani, who too had come out to attend nature's call. Relatives of Nagarathinam, Jothimani and Palanisamy said that these three lives could have been saved had the forest department alerted them.

G Kannan, a relative of Palanisamy, said, "The incident near Podanur took place around 3.15am. Had the forest department alerted people in villages in the 10 km radius, three lives could have been saved," he said.

Elephant tranquilised

Meanwhile, officials attempted to chase away the elephant to the forest. But it continued to roam in the residential area, and forest officials decided to tranquilise it.

More than 100 police personnel were deployed in the area. Kumkis were also brought.

Around noon, the animal was tranquilised.

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Tikamgarh, Jul 25: Promise of providing housing to the poor has been made by both Centre as well as State governments but a Dalit family in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh is forced to live in a toilet for the last several years.

However, the administration denied that the family is living in the toilet.

Maganlal Ahirwar, his wife and four children live in Keshavgarh Gram Panchayat of Mohangarh area of Tikamgarh district. All of them have been living in the toilet for four years. Ahirwar's wife Phula Devi said she told the authorities several times that her family didn't get house under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, but no one listened. The couple even got their daughter married in the same toilet.

They even got an electricity connection and gas connection under the Ujjwala scheme.

Mohangarh tehsildar Dr. Abhijeet Singh told media persons, "I got to know about the case and have asked for the report. Maganlal Ahirwar came to the office two-three days ago and denied that he was living in the toilet with his family. He has an ancestral house in the village."

He might have lived in a toilet earlier but currently he is not living there, Dr. Singh added.

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Yavatmal, May 19: Four migrant workers were killed and 15 others were injured after a bus they were travelling in crashed into a truck in Yavatmal on Tuesday morning.

The bus was travelling from Solapur to Jharkhand. More details are currently awaited.

This comes amid nationwide COVID-19 lockdown has been extended to May 31, albeit with some relaxations.

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May 24,2020

Bijnor, May 24: A man died after he was attacked by his cousins, allegedly for not getting tested for the Coronavirus after his return from Delhi.

The incident took place in Malakpur village in Bijnor district.

Manjeet Singh (23) died on Friday during treatment in Meerut.

A FIR has now been registered against Manjeet's cousins, Kapil and Manoj, their mother Puniya and Manoj's wife Dolly at the Nahtaur police station on a complaint filed by the father of the deceased Kalyan Singh on Sunday.
SHO, Nahtaur police station, Satya Prakash Singh said that no arrests have been made yet.

According to reports, Manjeet died due to head injuries.
His sample was not collected for a Coronavirus test by doctors during treatment.
Additional SP, Bijnor, Sanjay Kumar said, he underwent thermal screening when he reached Bijnor on May 19 from Delhi. The report was negative so his sample was not collected.

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SHO Satya Prakash Singh said, "Since his return, Kapil and Manoj were regularly asking Manjeet to get his test done. On Thursday, the cousins again asked Manjeet to get his test done after which an argument ensued between them."

"The accused brought sticks and started hitting Manjeet. He suffered injuries on the head and shoulder. When Manjeet fell unconscious, he was rushed to government hospital by his parents where he succumbed to injuries a day later," said Singh.

Chief Medical Officer, Bijnor, Dr Vijay Yadav said he has "no information" about the matter.

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