Gajendran

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☨ Gajendran
Profession	temple mahout
Personal details
Born	? in India

Dead	2018-05-26 Samayapuram Mariamman temple, Trichy in India

Residence
Country	India

Locations
Title	mahout -2018
Location	at Samayapuram Sri Mariamman Temple in India

Biography details

Gajendran , temple mahout in India

was born * ? in India dead 2018-05-26 Samayapuram Mariamman temple, Trichy, in India .

Affiliation with 1 elephants

1: Masini (fatal attack)

Casualties

1 casualties

2018-05-26: mahout Gajendran fatal attack by Masini. The elephant was brought to the temple at 10.50am by the Mahout and tied with a chain. In next 10 minutes, the elephant turned violent. The elephant pushed him on the ground and trampled him with its legs and crushed its Mahout, Gajendran, inside the temple around 11 am when the devotees were moving towards the sanctum sanctorum for worship. Gajendran † Gajendran Died 2018-05-26, Samayapuram Mariamman temple, Trichy.

2018-05-26: Elephant Masini trampled its Mahout Gajendran to death

A 46-year-old Mahout was trampled to death by an elephant at Samayapuram Mariamman temple in Trichy on Friday morning.
The temple elephant, Masini, crushed its Mahout, Gajendran, inside the temple around 11 am when the devotees were moving towards the sanctum sanctorum for worship. “The elephant was brought to the temple at 10.50am by the Mahout and tied with a chain. In next 10 minutes, the elephant turned violent. The elephant pushed him on the ground and trampled him with its legs.

Gajendran is mentioned on 1 elephant record pagesMasini,

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2026). mahout Gajendran in India. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 14 March 2026 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=3558. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/mahout-trampled-to-death-by-elephant-in-trichy-temple/articleshow/64317698.cms

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