Man vs Wild: Household spends night time in firm of jumbos | Kochi Information

Rescue crews scour mud-caked villages in Mundakkai for survivors

MEPPADI: Sujatha Aninanchira and her household‘s escape from the deathly embrace of the landslide that flattened their dwelling early Tuesday would in itself rank as a narrative of survival towards all odds. Throw in a trio of jumbos within the wild – a tusker and two feminine elephants – and you’ve got an virtually implausible story of life and loss of life.
However that’s precisely what Sujatha, her husband, daughter and two grandchildren encountered moments after extricating themselves from the rubble of what was their dwelling at Chooralmala.
The household climbed up a close-by hillock to discover a secure spot, solely to seek out themselves dealing with the elephant trio half a metre away. “It was pitch darkish, however the tusker standing close by was laborious to overlook. The animal appeared terrified, too. I mumbled a prayer to the jumbo, saying we would survived a catastrophe and requested it to spare us as we lay down for the night time and awaited rescue,” stated Sujatha at a reduction camp in Meppadi.
“We had been so near the tusker’s legs, however it appeared to know our predicament. We stayed there until 6am, and the elephants stood alongside until we had been rescued. I noticed the tusker’s eyes welling up because the daybreak broke,” she stated.
Monday night time, it was raining closely. I heard an enormous noise round 1.30 am, adopted by a gush of water coming into our home,” she stated. The household feared the worst as logs dragged down by the landslide rammed into partitions of their home, together with particles from destroyed dwellings close by.
“The home roof collapsed, leaving my daughter injured. I take away bricks from a wall and stepped out,” she recounted.
“We managed to get out and waded via the gushing waters, crawled up the hillock behind our home, and took shelter in a espresso plantation,” Sujatha added.
Little did they know {that a} night time of terror would finish with a glimmer of hope within the firm of wild elephants.