Siddapur (Kodagu): Four wild elephants, all of them female, were electrocuted after they came in contact with live power cables passing through a private estate at Ammathi Vontiangadi village in Virajpet taluk of Kodagu district yesterday. The elephants included a calf and the incident took place at Kannangala Gram Panchayat near Siddapur.
The incident occurred when the elephants were foraging for fodder at Yadoor and came in contact with low-hanging electric wire. This is the second such incident in the last 14 days. It may be recalled here that two elephants had died under similar circumstances at Vontiangadi in Kannangala Gram Panchayat on June 14. Yesterday’s incident has taken the death toll of elephants owing to accidental electrocution to six in one month.
