8 wild tuskers stranded at Kondalogam

Srikakulam: A herd of eight wild elephants are stranded at Kondalogam forest area in Palasa mandal on Monday. The elephants are not moving the way showed by the trained elephants Jayanthi and Ganesh, which were brought from Kuppam forest area in Chittoor district in March.

The wild tuskers are stranded at Kondalogam forest in Palasa mandal. The forest officials alerted the locals as with public announcement system explaining them not to provoke the wild tuskers and not to move out alone in the evenings.

If any untoward incident occurred, they asked the locals to inform forest staff immediately. They are providing mobile numbers of forest staff and explained the precautions to be taken to avoid elephants attack.