Coimbatore: In two separate incidents within a day, two wild elephants - a male tusker near Thondamuthur and a female elephant in the Pollachi range - died in Coimbatore district, officials from the Forest Department confirmed on Thursday.

In the first incident, a 25-year-old male elephant was electrocuted early Thursday at Kuppepalayam village near Thondamuthur.

According to Forest Department sources, the tusker died after pushing down an electric post, causing a live power line to fall on it. The carcass was found in an agricultural field adjoining a public road around 5 a.m. The owner of the farmland noticed the elephant and immediately alerted the forest staff attached to the Boluvampatti range.

Upon inspection, the officials found that the electric post, which had been recently in

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