The man, who was standing near his house in Arivolinagar on the outskirts, was trampled to death by the elephant, which appeared from a bushy area last night, police said.
On coming to know about the incident, more than 200 residents in the area staged a road roko affecting vehicular traffic for nearly one hour, police said.
They demanded that deep trenches be dug at gap of two kilometres each on the elephant corridor to prevent them from entering human habitats and constitution of a local committee to monitor movement of elephants to alert the public, they said.
