Indian rescuers pull elephant out of well using crane in 12-hour operation

Forest officials in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state have worked for more than 12 hours to pull an elephant from a well using a crane.

The elephant, which strayed into a village bordering a forest in Tamil Nadu’s Dharmapuri district, fell into the well that was covered with bushes and did not have a fence or wall around it, according to Rajkumar, the district forest officer.

Two other elephants have fallen into such wells in the…