Hanagodu: A forty-year-old healthy tusker died while trying to leap over a fence that was laid using old Railway tracks at Nagarahole Forest Division of Nagarahole National Park. The elephant was stuck in the iron railing and could neither move forward nor jump backward and died a painful death.
The incident occurred in the wee hours of today morning near Veeranahosalli Forest Department quarters in Hunsur taluk. To prevent elephants from entering human habitat, the Forest Department has laid Railway line fencing along the border of the Nagarahole National Park.
