KANNUR: Amidst complaints of increasing incidents of man-animal conflict, a youth was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Cherupuzha in Kerala's Kannur district on Wednesday morning.
According to Cherupuzha police, Ebin Sebastian, 21, son of Shaju and Sajini was found injured in his farmland located in the forest fringe area at 6 am on Wednesday.
Ebin is the second person killed in wild elephant attack in the district within the past one month. Raghu, a 43-year-old tribal youth was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Aralam farm on March 17.
People who went for morning walk found Ebin with multiple injuries in an arecanut plantation at Kanamvayal near Cherupuzha. There was a deep injury on the backside of his head. Though he was rushed to Kannur government Medical College hospital at Pariyaram, he died on the way.