Electric trap set for wild boar kills two youths in Kerala's Palakkad

The incident took place at Karingarapully in Palakkad. The deceased were identified as Shijith and Satish, both aged two.

Two youths died at Palakkad district in Kerala after allegedly suffering electric shock from a trap set for wild boars. 

The incident took place at Karingarapully in Palakkad. The deceased were identified as Shijith and Satish, both aged twenty-two. The police held owner of the farmland where two bodies were buried.

According to local sources, Shijith and Sathish, who were involved in an altercation case, were missing since Monday after the two ran helter-skelter on seeing a police party.

By Tuesday evening, their bodies were found buried in a nearby farmland. 

Upon interrogation, the land owner, identified as Anantha kumar, was learnt to have told the police that the two died after suffering electric shock from an electric trap he had set up due to wild boar menace.

He informed police that the two were found dead on Monday morning, and after he got scared, he buried the bodies.

Palakkad district police chief R Anand said that the land owner confessed that he buried the body owing to fear. He also tried to destroy evidence like the illegal electric trap.