Two elephants electrocuted to death in Kodagu
Madikeri, Jul 25: Two elephants died due to electrocution on coming in contact with a live electricity wire at Nellihudikeri in Kodagu district, forest officials said.
The incident is said to have taken place during the early hours on Monday.
On Monday morning, estate workers spotted the carcass of a female elephant in a private estate owned by K Prakash Mandanna, while another carcass, of a male elephant was found close by in another estate owned by Sumanth Chengappa, officials said.
Stating that a 11kv electric line passes through the private estates, they said, the line was damaged following incessant rainfall and the broken wire was lying haywire inside the estate premises, and the female elephant, aged approximately 12 years and a male elephant, aged approximately 14 years, came in contact with the broken electric line at two different spots.
Both the elephants were electrocuted, they further said, adding that, while the female elephant had injuries of electrocution across her neck, the male elephant suffered fatal injuries on the forehead.
Forest department officials and the officials from the Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) visited the spot.
"A case under the Wildlife Act has been booked and an FIR has been lodged against the concerned JEE of the CESC department for negligence," Poovaiah, Madikeri Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) said.
The post-mortem of the two elephants was conducted and the carcasses were buried by the department staff, officials added.
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250 residents evacuated after fire in Thane building; no casualty
Thane (PTI): Nearly 250 residents were evacuated after a fire broke out in a five-storey building in Maharashtra's Thane city on Sunday morning, civic officials said.
No one was injured in the blaze which erupted at around 5 am in a laundry shop on the ground floor of the building located at Srinagar in Wagle Estate area, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.
After being alerted, local fire personnel and the regional disaster management cell team members rushed to the spot to carry out the fire extinguishing operations and evacuated the building occupants, he said.
The blaze was put out in about an hour following which the people were allowed to return to their apartments, the official said.
The cause of fire was under investigation, he added.
