Elephant kills four people

COIMBATORE June 02: A wild elephant has killed four people including a teenager in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore early this morning.

According to the police, the elephant entered a house in Ganesapuram where it attacked two people including a 12-year-old girl who was asleep killing them instantly.

Soon after, the pachyderm targeted two women who were relieving themselves in an open field. Two others were also injured in the incident. The injured have been admitted to two private hospitals in Coimbatore.



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.