Wild elephant on Shiradi Ghat disrupts traffic

Vehicular traffic was disrupted for some time when a wild elephant was spotted on Bengaluru-Mangaluru national highway on Shiradi Ghat on Thursday.

A lone tusker was spotted near Double Turn on the Shiradi Ghat stretch, creating panic among the people. As there was a slope, the jumbo stood on the roadside, fearing to move.

The vehicle drivers stopped the vehicles midway on the road for a few minutes, spotting the tusker. Some were seen capturing the elephant on their mobile phones and circulating it on social media.

Locals suspect that it might be the same jumbo that had trampled to death a container driver from Rajasthan, recently.