Drug addict killed by elephant at Byculla zoo

MUMBAI: Serious security concerns were sparked on Sunday after an unidentified drug addict easily broke into the enclosures where elephants are kept at the Byculla zoo and got killed by an angry 56-year-old female elephant.
Police said the man was making away with the large metal bolt used to lock the elephant Laxmi’s enclosure. He accessed the enclosures from a public lawn inside the zoo’s premises, climbing a wall between the lawn and the enclosures. No money needs to be paid to use the lawn, where members of the public often sit and children play cricket.
The intruder, who was around 30 years of age, regularly consumed drugs along with a few other people in the lawn behind the elephant enclosures, said assistant commissioner Jayant Sarmokadam of the Byculla police. After he removed the bolt, the elephant wrapped its trunk around him, picked him up and bashed him against a wall, said witnesses.