A wild elephant was electrocuted after it came in contact with a power transformer on an agriculture field at Gantavari Palli village of Sadum mandal of Chittoor district in the early hours of Wednesday.
A herd of wild elephants entered the thickets of Sadum mandal a few days ago and kept raiding the crops and moving closer to human habitations. On Wednesday, an elephant that got separated from the herd and entered the fields. The Jumbo then came in contact with a transformer, and was electocuted. Forest officials arranged a postmortem of the wild elephant and kept a watch on the movement of the herd in the area.
Farmers deplored that low-lying power cables across the fields and the presence of ground-level transformers with uninsulated cables are the reason for such incidents. It is observed that despite the forest officials pursuing a solution to the man-animal conflict with the power department authorities, the issue remained unsolved due to paucity of funds.
