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Sloth bear mauls security guard to death in Valparai

Coimbatore: A sloth bear mauled a 56-year-old private security guard to death at Iyerpadi Tea Estate in Valparai on Sunday morning.

The deceased was identified as Subramani, who was working as a security guard at the estate manager’s house. “He was on the way to his home after work when the bear attacked him.

He suffered injuries on his head and died on the spot,” a forest department official said.

Workers of the estate, who found the body around 6.30am, had informed the forest department. The protesters did not allow Valparai forest range officer Senthilkumar and team to send the body for postmortem. It was sent to the Valparai Government Hospital after revenue department officials held talks with the protesters and pacified them.

The forest department handed over Rs 50,000 as interim relief to Subramani’s family. Rs 3.50lakh will soon be issued to the family, an official said. TNN

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