<p class="title">A 25-year-old wild jumbo died after being hit by the Hassan-Sakleshpur train, near Kakanamane village, under Bage grama panchayat limits, in the taluk, on Monday. This is the fourth elephant death reported in the region in the last three months.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Forest department personnel said that the tusker might have been hit by the passenger train that was bound for Hassan from Sakleshpur.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They said that the elephant does not belong to the herd that was frequently spotted in Alur and Sakleshpur region. It might be a lone tusker that had strayed in search for a female elephant when it met with the mishap.</p>.<p class="bodytext">DCF Shivaram Babu, ACF Lingaraju and RFO Mohan visited the spot. The carcass was cremated after the veterinarians conducted a post-mortem.</p>
<p class="title">A 25-year-old wild jumbo died after being hit by the Hassan-Sakleshpur train, near Kakanamane village, under Bage grama panchayat limits, in the taluk, on Monday. This is the fourth elephant death reported in the region in the last three months.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Forest department personnel said that the tusker might have been hit by the passenger train that was bound for Hassan from Sakleshpur.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They said that the elephant does not belong to the herd that was frequently spotted in Alur and Sakleshpur region. It might be a lone tusker that had strayed in search for a female elephant when it met with the mishap.</p>.<p class="bodytext">DCF Shivaram Babu, ACF Lingaraju and RFO Mohan visited the spot. The carcass was cremated after the veterinarians conducted a post-mortem.</p>
