<p>The tusker was last spotted at DRG Koppal on Saturday evening and strayed into Jayanna’s field a few kilometres away on Saturday night. <br /><br />Jayanna, who had recently dug a borewell to irrigate the field, and his wife Shivamma had slept in the make-shift hut he had built to guard the standing crop. <br /><br />When he chased the tusker with a lit-up frond, the agitated tusker tossed him in the air with its trunk and trampled him to death in his maize field. <br /><br />His death triggered a snap-stir by the residents in front of MLA Shivalingegowda, demanding initiatives to curb the menace of wild jumbos in the region. <br /><br />They withdrew the protest after the legislator promised to bring it to the notice of the government. <br /><br />Second incident<br /><br />This is the second such incident in a short span of a few weeks. The tusker, which had come to Arasikere taluk from Tumkur, had killed a daily wager at Bucchanakoppalu of Banawar hobli recently.<br /></p>
<p>The tusker was last spotted at DRG Koppal on Saturday evening and strayed into Jayanna’s field a few kilometres away on Saturday night. <br /><br />Jayanna, who had recently dug a borewell to irrigate the field, and his wife Shivamma had slept in the make-shift hut he had built to guard the standing crop. <br /><br />When he chased the tusker with a lit-up frond, the agitated tusker tossed him in the air with its trunk and trampled him to death in his maize field. <br /><br />His death triggered a snap-stir by the residents in front of MLA Shivalingegowda, demanding initiatives to curb the menace of wild jumbos in the region. <br /><br />They withdrew the protest after the legislator promised to bring it to the notice of the government. <br /><br />Second incident<br /><br />This is the second such incident in a short span of a few weeks. The tusker, which had come to Arasikere taluk from Tumkur, had killed a daily wager at Bucchanakoppalu of Banawar hobli recently.<br /></p>
