Madi locals prevent district authorities to retrieve bodies

The locals at Madi in Chitwan district have not allowed the local authority to retrieve the bodies of two women who were killed in wild elephant attack on Wednesday noon.

They have also taken to street and obstructed the vehicular movement here Thursday demanding the permanent solution to their perpetual problem with the district authorities, the menace of wild elephants.

Furthermore, they have also padlocked the four offices of the Community Forest in the buffer zone.

Madi Municipality Mayor Thakur Dhakal shared that the locals were seeking sustainable solutions to the wild elephant menace in their locality.

Chief District Officer of Chitwan, Jitendra Basnet said the bodies of two would be retrieved addressing the demands of the locals to the best of their capacity.

Meanwhile, the Chitwan National Park Chief Conservation Officer Ved Kumar Dhakal shared a technical team comprising Purusottam Pandey and Kiran Rijal had been dispatched to the National Park to track the wild elephants and to tranquilize them.

They have been instructed to cut short the tusks of the wild elephants after tranquilizing them.

Five years back, a wild elephant named Dhrube had killed six persons causing terror among the locals in Madi.

The protesting Madi locals have demanded with the authority for the proper compensation to the victim’s family, amendment in the National Park and Forest Conservation Act in the best interest of the locals, control of wild animal’s entry into human settlements, among others.

Sushila Bhandari, 35, and Trishna Kali Poudel, 60, were killed by the wild elephants while they were cutting grass for fodder at Madi Municipality-9 along the bank of the Reu River.

A total of eight persons in the National Park and the buffer zone areas in Chitwan district have lost their lives to the attack of the wild animals as of now in the current fiscal year, according to the Chitwan National Park.

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