Attack on forest officers: Search for accused intensified in Kozhikode

By Express News Service
KOZHIKODE: The forest division has intensified its seek for the hunters who unleashed canines on rangers throughout their escape in Poovaranthodu Thampurankolli boundary in Koodaranji. On Thursday morning, forest rangers reached a non-public pig farm to raid a six-member group that was looking wild buffaloes. Department officers discovered 50kg of untamed buffalo meat, two weapons, machetes, and headlights in a constructing adjoining to the farm through the raid.

The property is owned by Jilson Kakkyaniyil. He was accompanied by Vinoj Ok, Baby Perumpoola, Vijesh Perumpoola and two others through the raid. The rangers needed to run and soar over the border fence to flee the assault of the canines. “The three rottweilers are but to be discovered. We have info that the canines have been shifted to a different location.

The proprietor has 14 canines, the vast majority of that are rottweilers. The officers have been there on receiving a tipoff {that a} wild buffalo had been killed,” stated Thamarassery Range Forest Officer M Ok Rajeev Kumar, who was a part of the raid. Range Section Forest Officers KK Sajeev Kumar, B Ok Praveen Kumar, Ok P Prashanthan, Beat Forest Officers P Vijayan, Shwetha Prasad, and watchers Mohanan, Raju and Ravi are the others who have been a part of the raid.