India, Feb. 13 -- A man was allegedly trampled by a wild elephant in Kerala's Wayanad on Wednesday night, a second such incident in two days in the southern state, officials said.

The victim was identified as 27-year-old Balan, a native of a tribal settlement near Attamala in Meppadi panchayat.

His family, who went looking for him early Wednesday morning, found his mutilated remains on a path near a tea estate in the area. The area is close to the Mundakkai-Chooralmala villages where scores of people were killed in multiple landslides in July last year. Following the landslide and the migration of people in these areas to relief camps and government housing, locals had complained to the forest department that the threat of wild elephant...