Rogue elephants trample three in Supaul

Supaul, Mar 06 (UNI) Three people were trampled to death by rogue elephants under Raghopur
police station area in the district today.

Police said here that herd of rogue elephants entered in Raghopur police station area from Nepal
and trampled to death three locals.Those killed were identified as Yogeshwar Yadav, Ranjit Sah
and Jatiya Devi, police added.

"A team of forest department was called by local police station who chased away rogue elephants
to Nepal", police said, adding that the bodies had been sent for postmortem.

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Septuagenarian killed in Udayapur elephant attack

GAIGHAT: An elderly woman has been killed in an elephant attack in Triyuga Municipality-1 of Udayapur district.

The deceased has been identified as Sabitra Rai (78) of Khaijanpur in Triyuga Municipality-1 in the district.

According to the deceased’s daughter Binda Rai, a rogue elephant attacked and killed her mother at 9:00 am today while she was collecting foliage in the jungle beside Luhale Khola near her home.

Meanwhile, the body of the deceased has been kept at District Hospital, Udayapur for postmortem, Superintendent of Police (SP) Chandra Dev Rai at Udayapur District Police Office informed.

Police have also informed that a herd of elephants have destroyed a dozen houses in Tapeshwari, Bhagalpur and southern region of Triyuga Municipality in the district.

Just a month ago, a person was killed by an elephant inhabiting the nearby Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve (KTWR), in Tapeshwari area of Belaka Municipality in the district.

The elephants inhabiting KTWR have remained a menace in the area surrounding Chure forest for the past one month.

It has been learned that the wild pachyderms appear near the human settlements mostly during the rice harvest every year.

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