COIMBATORE: A 60-year-old man was attacked and killed by an elephant at Lingapuram near Mettupalayam on the outskirts of the city on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as L V Sampath Kumar, a dairy farmer. The elephant attacked him around 5pm when he was heading to his house on a motorcycle from his farm at Odanthurai. He died on the spot.
When alerted, forest officials recovered the body, which was sent to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital for postmortem. A 59-year-old man was killed in an elephant attack near Narashipuram on the city outskirts on Thursday night.