Elephant breaking a branch after a charge.
The journalist was heading to his paddy field on his motorcycle, early in the morning, when the elephant rushed out of the jungle at Palamunai and attacked him with his trunk.
He lay on the paddy field without movement as the elephant came closer to him. According to Siraj the elephant stood there for a couple of minutes and then moved slowly into the nearby jungle without causing him further harm.
It was after the elephant disappeared from the scene that the people from the surroundings approached and rushed the journalist to the hospital. Siraj suffered a fracture of his right arm.
Meanwhile, according to the paddy cultivators from the Palamunai area, the elephant involved in the attack has been roaming around the Palamunai area for the past several weeks.
Comment: See also these reports of recent attacks: Two killed in a wild elephant attack in Maankulam, Sri Lanka
One person killed in wild elephant attack in Sri Lanka
Three tourists escaped with only minor injuries after elephant overturns car in Kruger Park, South Africa
Eight elephants attack town; one person reported dead in Ghana
2 killed in separate wild elephant attacks in India
Wild elephant attacks kills two in Sri Lanka