A tusker that suffered a mouth injury after biting into a country-made bomb and a female elephant were found dead in two neighbouring forest ranges of the Coimbatore Forest Division on Sunday and Monday.
With the two deaths, the total number of wild elephants that died of various reasons in the division this year touched 20.
The male elephant, aged around nine, was found dead within the compound of the Central Training College (CTC) of the Central Reserve Police Force at Kurudampalayam, near Coimbatore, on Sunday evening.