Nagarahole: A wild elephant, which crossed a barricade made of iron railings of railway line at Veeranahosalli in Nagarahole Reserve Forest last night, has this morning destroyed maize crop and banana plantation nearby besides chasing a farmer who was ploughing his field and damaging a bike of a tribal, which was parked in a tribal hamlet.
The lone tusker, after destroying crops and banana plantation, tried to cross over the barricade to go into the forest this morning but in vain and had stayed put there.
