Indian forest officials struggled to drive out a wild elephant after it entered their campus and was spotted inside a kitchen on September 5.<br /><br />The officials at a Special Task Force (STF) unit near Coimbatore in southern India struggled to draw the the elephant out of the kitchen and then drive it out of their campus. <br /><br />They deployed a jeep blaring its siren to scare the elephant away and lit firecrackers as well. There were tense moments as the elephant stood its ground and came face-to-face with the jeep, which was forced to retreat. <br /><br />The elephant left the campus but late in the night damaged a house at a nearby tribal settlement.<br /><br />Officials have named the tuskless male elephant ‘Bulldozer’ as it has been found to cause trouble by demolishing homes and raiding farms. <br /><br />The elephant has severe injuries in the oral cavity and is being treated by the forest officials, who are feeding it flour mixed with medicine. <br /> <br />A special team is monitoring the elephant to prevent it from straying into villages. “The elephant is not well and was tranquillised a year ago in Kerala. It cannot take one more tranquillising,” said a forest official. <br /><br />The official said they had to use drastic measures on September 5 to drive out the elephant as it was about to step on a cooking gas in the kitchen.
