Elephant killed after people hurl burning tyre on it, outrage over incident as footage of cruelty surface on social media

OOTY: Releasing a video of the incident on Friday, the officials said the elephant with serious injuries on one of the ears died without responding to treatment a couple of days ago, sources in the forest department said. One person was nabbed on suspicion and was being interrogated, the sources said.

The video showed a burning tyre hurled from a building on the animal injuring its ear. The elephant fled trumpeting in pain, they said. Later, it was found lying near a dam. The forest department veterinarians tried to revive it, but in vain. A postmortem was done.

A provisional diagnosis suggested that the septic fistula filled with pus and severe loss of blood leading to acute anaemia, hypovolemia resulted in shock and death of the 50-year-old tusker, though the burns on the ear have not been the cause of death, they said.

Elephant tortured : I feel very sad and angry why these people doing this kind of activity. they burned tyre then attacked the wild elephant mashinagudi Tamilnadu ..@salma_poet @Priyamvathap @mahajournalist @Miss_NINJ @SundarrajanG pic.twitter.com/YGuwuRzTZZ

— siva m (@siva_apt) January 22, 2021