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Kumki elephants escorting the wild elephant (second left) from a sugarcane field that entered at Nagaranai near Sathyamangalam on Saturday.

Kumkis deployed to chase wild elephants

2013-10-26 - Thondamuthur, India.

The Forest Department on Thursday night deployed two kumki (tamed/trained) elephants, Nanjan and Pari, at Kuppepalayam near Thondamuthur to send back the lone female elephant and a herd deep into the forests. For the last ten days, the herd and the lone elephant have been straying out of the forests and two days ago, the female elephant trampled a 55-year-old woman to death.


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