A speech and hearing impaired man was killed by a wild tusker when he was grazing cattle on the fringes of nearby Boluvampatti forest range today, police said.
The 55-year-old man had left the cattle in open land just 100 metres away from the forest when the tusker suddenly appeared from there, lifted him with its trunk and flung him to the ground, killing him on the spot, they said.
Police said the man might not have heard the approaching elephant as he was speech and hearing impaired.
Villagers rushed to the spot and found him lying dead in a pool of blood.
The pachyderm hovered around the area for some time and later went back to the forest, police said.
