COIMBATORE: A Single wild elephant entered a village near here in the early hours of Saturday, ransacked houses and a government high school near Chinnathadagam.
According to a Forest department source, the wild tusker entered Chinna Thadagam around 4 am on Saturday and damaged three houses of brick chamber laborers. Seeing the elephant, the labours ran out of their houses and escaped.
The elephant emptied a 500-liters water tank filled up for brick manufacturing and after 40 minutes, the pachyderm moved from the spot after the workers started to light fire torches and chased it away.
Around 4.45 am the elephant moved to the Chinnathadagam government boy's high school and entered the noon meal kitchen by knocking down the side walls.
There the elephant gobbled the rice and vegetables stored inside. On hearing the trumpeting sound, the villagers came out of their houses and made an attempt to chase the elephant by lighting fire torches, but the pachyderm refused to move and remained inside the school campus. Around 6 am the elephant slowly moved towards the Anuvavi Subramaniam Swami temple in the Western Ghats.
On information from the farmers' Forest department AP watchers came to the spot and chased away the elephant into the deep forest area.
