A herd of 17 elephants appeared on Monday morning on the under-construction IIT campus in Palakkad Kerala and have been later despatched again to a close-by forest.
Palakkad District Forest Officer advised PTI that the firecrackers have been carried into the forest utilizing firecrackers after forest officers reached the realm.
IIT campus Palakkad pic.twitter.com/f2IlrBqBaD
— Surendranath (@surendrpgt) September 20, 2021
IIT Campus, Palakkad
credit score: whatsapp pic.twitter.com/FZCTRRNOhY
— hari (@harisree_18) September 20, 2021
He stated that this incident occurred for the primary time and there have been no casualties and no construction was broken.
Once the development of the advanced is accomplished, a wall might be constructed round it to maintain the elephants out, the official stated. He additionally stated that the herd was dwelling within the forest and had not come there from anyplace else.
.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
