Sick juvenile elephant dies during treatment in Coimbatore district
The Hindu
The elephant had been rescued from a pit by Forest Dept staff earlier this week, veterinarians had tried to treat it, but it did not respond
The juvenile male elephant, that from a pit and was found to be sick, near Periyanaickenpalayam in Coimbatore district, died during treatment in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to District Forest Officer T.K. Ashok Kumar, the elephant died at around 3.30 a.m. on Tuesday on a private plot of land in the Periyanaickenpalayam forest range. Aged around six to seven years, it was found by the Forest Department staff collapsed, on the private plot, around 250 metres away from the forest boundary on Monday morning, following which two veterinarians commenced treatment for the elephant.
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