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A wild tusker, Padayappa, blocked a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus and broke its windscreen, close to Neymakkad, in Munnar on Tuesday morning.
According to officers, when the KSRTC bus, which was headed to Munnar from Udumalpet, reached close to Neymakkad property, Padayappa blocked the car for round 20 minutes. The tusker broke the windscreen of the bus earlier than heading again to the forest.
Munnar KSRTC Depot Inspector in-charge Vishwanathan mentioned the windscreen of a bus was absolutely broken. “The bus will be shifted to the workshop at Aluva for affixing new windscreen. The service was cancelled after the tusker attack,” Mr. Vishwanathan mentioned.
“Padyappa may have been looking for food items and accidentally brushed against the windscreen, which broke. It did not attack the bus,” Munnar vary officer Arun Maharaja defined.
This is the tusker’s second assault in lower than every week. On Saturday evening, Padayappa blocked a KSRTC super-fast bus at Neymakkad property, close to Munnar, and broke its aspect view mirror.
In the same accident in April 2022, Padayappa broke the windscreen of a KSRTC bus close to the Deputy Superintendent of Police(DSP) workplace in Munnar city. The bus was on the way in which from Munnar to Udumalpet in Tamil Nadu.
District secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) M.N. Jayachandran mentioned that the Forest division ought to examine the well being situation of the tusker. “The Forest department should fix a radio collar on Padayappa so that its movement can be tracked,” Mr. Jayachandran added.
Padayappa, believed to be round 60 years previous, will be simply recognized together with his limp because of an harm on its hind leg and unusually lengthy tusks. Padayappa has been named after Rajinikanth’s hit movie.
Source: www.thehindu.com