Woman sustains serious injuries in elephant attack in Wayanad 

SULTHAN BATHERY: An 80-year-old woman sustained serious injuries in an elephant attack in Wayanad again. The woman has been identified as Thankamma of Moodakolly. The woman, who was standing in the courtyard was lifted with its trunk and then flung her to a far-off distance. She suffered injuries on her ribs and was admitted to a hospital in Bathery.

As the summer heats up, wild elephants are increasingly entering the country in Wayanad. Efforts are on to catch Muttikomban alias Thathoor Tusker that has become a threat to the lives and property of the people of the Muttivadakkanad-Valluvadi region and killed a young farmer. Muttikomban also attacked the task force that was out to catch him after tranquilising it. The team escaped as they ran away from its hands.

For the past six years, the tusker known locally as Muttikomban, identified as TT1 in the Forest Department’s data bank, has been causing distress to people in the Valluvadi region. Fed up with the situation, the local residents passed a resolution in the panchayat grama sabha last month demanding that this troublesome elephant be captured and hand over to the forest department. However, the department failed to take any action on the matter. As a result of this negligence, a young farmer named Rajeev (37), from Nadhuveettil house in Pachadi, Vadakkanad, lost his life.

He was attacked by a wild elephant while he was going to his farm. A person called Rajeev and informed him about the wild elephant's arrival. If it is muttikomban, it has the habit of attacking people when it sees them. Knowing this, he went to the open area near the farm to see if the elephant had entered his farm. The elephant attacked him here.
The elephant attacked the youth near his field where he cultivated more than 2,000 bananas. Before Rajeev was killed by the elephant, many people had a narrow escape. The wild elephant had destroyed and trampled the cash crops of hundreds of farmers. Decades long hard work would be destroyed by wild elephants every day.