By our special correspondent
Mananthavady (Wynad) Feb 12 (IVC) No plans for tranquilizing the wild elephant at Manantha vady in the Wynad District again today and the efforts to shoot the elephant with Captor-gun would be started tomorrow early morning, official sources said.
Operation by Rapid Response Team (RRT) of the forest department today being the third day to capture Belur Makhna , a tusk less wild elephant that killed a 45-year-old farmer at Chaligaddha near here on Feb 10, proved futile. Though the forest officials shot the Captor-gun at the wicked elephant to tranquilize it and bring under control was not successful, the Chief Conservator of forests said here.
The efforts of RRT to bring the elephant under control stopped today as the elephant moved to the bog of the forest at Mannundy and it was not safe to apply the Captor-gun at the bog of the forest, the official sources added that the area where the elephant stood was the human beings habitation zone.
The elephant was not in a stationary position at the bog of the thick forest and it was in a moving position in the forest, the sources said.
The enraged public continue their protest against the inaction on the part of the appropriate authorities.
