Five tea estate workers, including four women, were seriously injured when a rogue elephant attacked them in a tea estate in Valparai in the district today, police said.
The workers were on their way to the government run TN Tea plantation corporation when the pachyderm suddenly appeared from the nearby jungles and attacked them.
In the melee, some workers were injured, five of them seriously and were admitted to the Government Hospital in Valparai, they said.
