CG-ELEPHANT-TRANQUILISE

A Forest department team has been

deployed in Chhattisgarh's Korba district to tranquilise a

wild elephant which has killed four people in the past two

weeks in Surajpur area and has now entered the Lemru forest

range here, an official said Sunday.

The team, also having experts from the Wildlife

Institute of India in Dehradun, was keeping an eye on the

elephant's movement in Lemru forest range under Korba forest

division to tranquilise it, said S Venkatachalam, Divisional

Forest Officer (DFO) Korba.

He informed that the tusker, after being tranquilised,

will be brought to the Elephant Rescue and Rehabilitation

Centre in Tamor Pingla sanctuary of Surguja district.

He said the team was rushed after permission for

tranquilising the tusker was received from higher authorities,

adding that the hilly terrain was causing difficulties in the

operation.

Elephant attacks have killed six people in Surajpur

and Surguja in the past few days, officials said.