SALEM: A 35-year-old tusker was electrocuted after coming in contact with an illegal electric fence on a farmland at Koozhkaradu village in Mettur on Sunday.
Farmer S Pushpanathan, 48, had installed the fence on the land, close to the Mettur reserve forest, forest department officials said. “The elephant, which tried to enter the land, was electrocuted around 3am,” an official said.