Elephant terror continues in Kapilbastu villages

People in half a dozen villages in Kapilbastu district are terrorised by wild elephants. People of Gugauli, Shivagadhi, Ganeshpuri, Khuruhuriya and Bhagawapur Village Development Committees (VDCs) have been terrorized by elephants from the Gautam Buddha Leasehold Forest as the elephants trumpet near the village and trample on the crops in their fields. Chairperson of the Community Forest, Janaki Yadav said the elephants that come from the forest along with their calves have broken the barbed wire fencing around the forest and damaged goods and property worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. The locals stay awake the whole night lest the elephants enter the human settlements. It is suspected that the elephants might have come to the forest from the Banke National Park via forest corridor in India.

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