Wild elephants trample farmer to death in Chittoor district
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Residents of hamlets near T.N. border in grip of fear
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Forest and police personnel inspecting the spot where the farmer was killed by jumbos at Tanjavur near Chittoor on Thursday.
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Residents of hamlets near T.N. border in grip of fear
Panic gripped the hamlets close to the Chittoor-Tamil Nadu border after a nine-member herd of wild elephants fatally attacked a 52-year-old farmer at Tanjavur village of Yadamarri mandal in the district, 25 km from here, on Thursday morning.
According to local residents, the victim, Valligan (52), a speech and hearing impaired farmer, was relieving himself at a pond near his fields around 6 a.m., after finishing his night vigil, when the attack took place. The farmers in the neighbouring fields, who were also getting ready to return home, spotted the nine-member herd of wild elephants marching towards the forests of P