Elephant kills man while being fed jaggery in Indore

An elephant trampled a 49-year-old autorickshaw driver to death while he was feeding it jaggery in Indore, police said on Monday.

The CCTV footage of the incident, which occurred on Saturday in front of the city’s Raj Nagar police station, has surfaced on social media. A case has been registered against mahout Umesh Goswami on charges of negligence in controlling the jumbo, the police said.

The autorickshaw driver, identified as Vijay



Holkar, had gone to feed jaggery to the elephant when it pushed him to the ground with its trunk. During the incident, the mahout hit the elephant near its head with a stick, making it uncontrollable, a police official said.

The elephant then lifted the victim with its trunk, threw him down, and trampled his stomach. The seriously injured victim was first taken to the district hospital. He was later shifted to a private hospital, where he died during treatment, he said.