Udhagamandalam, March 18 Tense moments prevailed on the Mettupalayam-Coonor railway route after one of the nine wild elephants camped inside a tunnel, chasing some railway employees near here, officials said on Wednesday.
A video of the incident that occurred on March 17 went viral on social media.
Railway employees travelling on a locomotive narrowly escaped as a herd of wild elephants, consisting of calves, was camping inside a tunnel on the famous Nilgiris Mountain Railway, a heritage site, as shown in the video.
One of the elephants that emerged from the tunnel chased the railwaymen for a short distance before disappearing into the bushes.
Environmental activists, who believe that such incidents have been occurring regularly on this stretch, have requested that the Railways operate the trains at low speeds.
