Wild Elephant Kills Man Sleeping Outside Near Malampuzha

Overview

• Police identified the victim as A Chandran of Vellezhuthampotta near Malampuzha, who was sleeping outside by his forest-edge home when a wild elephant attacked.
• Two others resting nearby escaped, and residents drove the elephant away and pulled Chandran out, and he was later declared dead.
• Malampuzha police said they will register an unnatural-death case and conduct a postmortem before releasing the body to his family.
• Local officials said wild animals often enter the village and that relatives had warned Chandran not to sleep outdoors.
• The death comes after an early May incident in Angamaly where an elephant ran amok at a temple festival and a handler was killed during efforts to restrain it, showing ongoing human–elephant conflict in Kerala.