A second chance at life: Sangeetha’s brush with a rampaging elephant
Sangeetha experienced a terrifying encounter with a rampaging elephant while driving in Cherur. The elephant lifted her car before dropping it back down, allowing her to escape with her life. Her daughter, who witnessed the incident, remains shaken by the event.
- ▪Sangeetha was trapped in her car as an elephant ran amok in Cherur.
- ▪The elephant lifted her car before dropping it back down, allowing her to escape.
- ▪Local people rushed to help her out of the mangled vehicle after the incident.
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For Sangeetha, it felt nothing short of a second birth. As the elephant Sivam Lakshmi Ayyappan ran amok from Thekkinkadu Maidan through Palace Road and into the quiet lanes of Gandhi Nagar Colony in Cherur, she found herself trapped in its path — inside her car, on her way to work. There was barely time to react.“A few youngsters on a scooter came rushing and shouted, ‘The elephant is coming, reverse!’ But there was no space to reverse. Another car was behind me, and my daughter was coming on her scooter,” she recalls, her voice still trembling. Sangeetha, who had a miraculous escape from the rampaging elephant in Thrissur on Saturday. | Photo Credit: K.K. NAJEEB In that split second, instinct took over. She honked, urging her daughter to move back.
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