The elephant stomped down the road leaving smashed up bikes in his wake.
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Devidasan the elephant celebrated the Indian holy festival by smashing up vehicles.
The elephant, known as Devidasan, must not have been happy when he chose to go on a rampage through a town in southern India.
It took authorities several hours to get the elephant under control.
One of them went berserk and started flinging parked motorbikes and auto-rickshaws about, leaving a trail of destruction behind.
Several studies argue that Kerala’s temple elephants are kept in poor conditions, often being chained or starved.
The Thalappoli festival features a big music-filled procession headed by richly caparisoned elephants such as Devidasan.
The Bhagavathi Temple is one of the most ancient temples in India as well as one of the richest.
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The animal terrorised a town in eastern India damaging shops, buildings, and hundreds of homes.
