VARKALA: Elephant brought for a temple festival killed the second mahout. The first mahout suffered a fracture in his leg and has been hospitalized. The incident was at Edava on Friday.

Baiju(45), son of Menavanchira Melathil Raghavan is the deceased. Satheesan (38) is at Parippally Medical College Hospital. The elephant, Rajasekharan, has been tranquilized by the elephant squad.

The elephant lifted Satheesan and threw him while he approached the tusker to feed it. He fractured his leg on impact. Later, Baiju went to tame the elephant and faced a similar reaction. After thrashing him onto the ground two times, the elephant threw Baiju away. He died on the spot.