A wild elephant trampled a woman to death at the local Gorakhnath Community Forest this afternoon. The victim is 35-year-old Sundari Chaudhari of Ramghat, Belauri Municipality-15.
The elephant attacked Chaudhari and her husband, Asharam, when they were heading towards Chanadeu of Shankarpur on a bicycle, police said.
Asharam managed to run away leaving the bicycle behind when the elephant attacked them while they were traveling through the forest but his wife was trampled by the tusker, killing her instantaneously.
Wild elephants that enter the area from the Dudhuwa National Park of India have been terrorizing the people in Kanchanpur over the last three weeks. A herd of around 40 elephants has destroyed the rice crop on about 150 bighas land in Kanchanpur district.
Some 400 farmers have applied to the District Forest Office and the Shuklaphanta Reserve Office for compensation.
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