{"id":117649,"date":"2018-03-31T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T12:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=117649"},"modified":"2018-03-31T17:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T12:24:26","slug":"11-persons-injured-as-elephant-runs-amok-at-keralas-sabarimala-temple-the-new-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=117649","title":{"rendered":"11 persons injured as elephant runs amok at Kerala’s Sabarimala temple | The New Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"

SABARIMALA:\u00a0As many as 11 persons were injured after the temple elephant ran amok at Appachimedu, on the trekking path between Sanidhanam and Pampa, at 10 am on Friday.\u00a0The priest, Vineet Kumar, 37, who was holding the \u2018thidambu\u2019 atop elephant Krishnakumar, has been admitted to the Kottayam Medical College Hospital with injuries. His condition is stated to be stable and improving.<\/p>\n

The mahout of the elephant suffered a fracture to his leg when he tried to keep the elephant under control.
\nThose who suffered injuries include civil police officer Arun; Chandrasekharan of Nagarcovil; Krishnakumar of Kayamkulam; Chandrasekahar Rao of Vijayawada; Reghuram of Andhra; Pradeep Kumar of Kayamkulam; Sudhishkumar of Chirayankeezhu, and Udayakumar of Thakazhi.<\/p>\n

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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has urged the authorities to conduct a \u2018devaprasnam\u2019 into the incident in which the \u2018thidambu\u2019 fell off the elephant, injuring the devotees.VHP leader V R Rajasekharan also flayed the Devaswom authorities for engaging the elephant, which had caused problems on the previous day of \u2018kodiyettu\u2019 on March 21, to carry the \u201cthidambu\u201d of Lord Ayyappa on the arattu day on Friday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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SABARIMALA:\u00a0As many as 11 persons were injured after the temple elephant ran amok at Appachimedu, on the trekking path between Sanidhanam and Pampa, at 10 am on Friday.\u00a0The priest, Vineet Kumar, 37, who was holding the \u2018thidambu\u2019 atop elephant Krishnakumar, has been admitted to the Kottayam Medical College Hospital with injuries. His condition is stated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}