Elephants trample brick kiln worker

STAFF REPORTER
Elephants trampled upon to death a brick kiln worker near Periya Thadagam on Sunday night. According to the Thudiyalur police, the incident happened around 9 p.m. when the worker Palanisamy came out of his house. He was a native of Amaravathi Dam area.

The police took his body to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for postmortem.

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/elephants-trample-brick-kiln-worker/article4257649.ece

Almost every evening people from nearby brick kilns and animal enthusiasts mob play hide and seek with the elephants causing enormous stress to the elephants. This incident has happened as expected. Police presence and their action to control these mobs has to be there. District administration and Local Panchayat are only busy in aiding soil mining brick kiln mafias in this elephant corridor and habitat.

Coimbatore Forest department having fewer resources at their disposal are being stretched to the maximum and their financial resources that were spent for electric fences are not working, trenches dug are poorly done. Forest Ranger in this area is always busy in non-forestry activities.

So.. Blame it on the elephants continues.
- Mac Mohan