Watch: Elephant rescued after falling into trench near Karnataka wildlife sanctuary

Officials levelled the ground and created a path for the elephant to climb out of the trench, but it was too exhausted.

A video shared on Twitter by Indian Forest Service officer Yedukondalu V showed how officials used a crane to pull the elephant out.

Watch the video here:

Rescued the tusker which fallen accidentally near Arkanahalla ,MM hills WLS, forest frontline staff and fire department helped a lot.
⁦@moefcc⁩ ⁦@aranya_kfd⁩ ⁦@susantananda3⁩ ⁦@ParveenKaswan⁩ ⁦@CentralIfs⁩ ⁦@RandeepHooda⁩ ⁦@dasadarshan⁩ pic.twitter.com/Jb4MndiJJh

— Yedukondalu V IFS (@ifs_yedukondalu) August 26, 2020

Take a look at some reactions here:

Congratulations! It must be so fulfilling to do such noble things everyday.

— Aryan Yashpal (@AryanYashpal) August 26, 2020

Amazing indeed.

— Dinkar Dikshit (@DikshitDinkar) August 26, 2020

Great work 👍👏👌

— Alok J B (@aloka8585) August 26, 2020

Amazing work.

— Uday (@udayfreelancer) August 26, 2020

Hope he wasn’t hurt

— PremaC🇮🇳🚩 (@prema2005) August 26, 2020

Looks like the elephant was just resting…

— Andhaa Kaanun (@AndhaaKaanun) August 27, 2020

Well done. May you all be blessed.

— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) August 26, 2020

beautiful work.

— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) August 26, 2020

The video has been viewed over a lakh time since being shared on Twitter.