PALAKKAD/THRISSUR:
Forest department
officials on Friday arrested a person in connection with the brutal killing of a 15-year-old pregnant wild elephant at Thiruvizhamkunnu, Palakkad.
Wilson, of Edavanna, Malappuram, a rubber tapper at Ambalapara, reportedly told forest officials that he had helped prepare and set up the snare of the coconut containing explosives and that it was meant to kill wild boars that destroy crops in farms adjoining the forest.
Two other persons, a father and son, owners of a plantation in the area and suspected of being involved in the crime, are absconding, according to officials investigating the ca