అరుణాచలం ఏనుగు రుక్కుకి జరిగిన దారుణం |Sad story of Arunachalam Elephant Rukku | Nanduri Srinivas

Rukku on duty at Temple

The cow elephant  was laid to rest near Anjeneyar Temple in the afternoon after a team of six veterinarians performed a postmortem. Hundreds of devotees and residents of Tiruvannamalai paid homage to their beloved elephant whom they called 'Rukku'. Priests offered special prayers.
The elephant was brought to the temple at the age of three years and domesticated. It was in the temple for close to 27 years. The elephant was given by the Tamil Nadu government to the temple.
The elephant sustained injuries when it was taken out for a regular walk around 9 p.m. on Wednesday. When it was walking through the fifth prakaram of the temple, a pack of dogs  barked and ran towards it. The elephant tried to run away and hit a barricade. The mahout and a few others managed to calm down the elephant and gave it water. After a while, it was taken to its shed. However, the elephant panicked when a dog run towards it. When it tried to run away, it hit a tin sheet and sustained multiple injuries.

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