On Wednesday morning, Two tourists from Ahmedabad were trampled to death during a trekking trail in Gavi, which is an integral part of the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Pathanmthitta. The deceased, Bhupendra Raval, 52, who works as a general manager in a private firm in Ahmedabad and his wife Jagruti Raval (50), a scientist working at SAC/ISRO. The Couple with a guide for a two-hour trekking expedition organized by the Kerala state forest department. According to another guide, who was just 300 metres away from the incident near cardamom plantation where the elephant had already mauled the couple and injured the guide. The couple did not have time to move from the elephant path as it ran straight into them in a mad frenzy,” as per forest official.
