Mysore/Mysuru: A 40-year-old wild elephant which strayed into a resort near Masinagudi of Nilgiris District in Tamil Nadu, was killed by an act of human cruelty as a burning tyre and clothes were hurled at it by the staff of a private resort at Mavanallah.
Tamil Nadu Forest Department officials said the badly injured elephant, bleeding in its ears, was found by some Forest Department guards in Masinagudi in the end of December, but it died before it could be taken for treatment to a facility at the Mudumalai Forest Range. On conducting an autopsy, officials realised that severe injuries had been caused because of the burns.
