Wild gaur attacks, kills man in Coonoor
Forest department sources said that one Murugaiyan (45), a farmer residing at Thuthurmattam village, was working in his farmland.
By : B Ravichandran
Update: 2017-01-31 00:42 GMT
Coonoor: A wild gaur attacked and killed a farmer at Thuthurmattam area nearhere on Monday, as man-gaur conflicts emerged again inrural Coonoor limits.
While there were similar conflicts in the Coonoor belt in the second half of 2016, the guar menace has resurfaced again now after a brief lull in the hills.
Forest department sources said that one Murugaiyan (45), a farmer residing at Thuthurmattam village, was working in his farmland on Monday morning as usual.