Bihar man-animal conflict: Rampaging elephant crushes 5 villagers to death

Patna: In a tragic turn of events, five people were crushed to death when a stray elephant entered the Raghopur police station area from across the Nepal border. The incident took place on Wednesday and Thursday when one of the elephants from the herd of wild elephants was separated after which he went on a rampage across several villages in Supaul district

Going by the reports by Hindustan Times, on Wednesday morning, Yogeshwar, one of the deceased was trampled to death when he had gone to his agricultural field to irrigate his crops. This was the first incident that occurred at Karjain police station area.

Not only this, the tusker's rampage continued when the elephant attacked a house in Jahalipatti village. Chania Devi, a 55-year-old woman was crushed to death in this attack as well. After this the wild elephant reached Koriapatti village, resulting in the death of 45-year-old Ranjit Shah who happened to cross the path of the elephant.

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The wild elephant reached Dharmpatti and Chowhatta villages on Thursday morning and attacked two more people. While trying to escape from the attack Shyam Lal Kamat of Chowhatta village was crushed to death. Also, Mohammad Jabbar of Dharmpatti village suffered various injuries and eventually passed away after the wild elephant attacked him.

In a statement to Hindustan Times, Mahendra Kumar, Sapaul's district magistrate, stated that a compensation cheque of Rs 5 lakh each has been handed over to the deceased's families.

After the chaos for nearly eight hours that led to the extensive damage of several houses and crops, the elephant was pushed back to Ratnapura in Nepal by police, forest guards and villagers. Reportedly, for the next few days, teams from forest departments of Patna and Purina will camp in the district.

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Siren vehicle patrol in mobilisation to chase away rogue elephants in Jhapa

BHADRAPUR: The Division Forest Office Jhapa has mobilised armed patrol team with siren-equipped vehicle to chase away wild tuskers in Buddhashanti Rural Municipality.

The safety measure was put in place after a herd of wild elephants continued demolishing houses of local people and eating up their crops, shared division office chief Bishnu Ghimire.

He said that around 13 wild elephants inhabiting the community forest in the area were terrorising locals especially in the evening time, said Sitaram Bastola, a local of Buddhashanti Rural Municipality-3.

He shared that the mobilisation of a seven-member armed forest security personnel with well-appointed vehicle from Division Office has given a respite to the local people.

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Assam : Passenger train derails after hits wild elephant

Guwahati, Nov 21 : An elephant was died when a passenger train hit the jumbo crossing the railway track in upper Assam’s Jorhat district on Wednesday morning.

The incident took place at Letekujan area near Titabor in the upper Assam district at around 4-50 am when a herd of wild elephants was trying to cross the railway track.

According to the Northeast Frontier Railway officials, at about 4-50 am the front luggage cum parcel van number 96701 of train number 15603 Guwahati – Ledo Intercity Express got derailed when the train dashed against an elephant at km 357 / 6-7 between stations Titabar and Mariani under Tinsukia Division of NF Railway.

As a result of which the train with all passengers got detained at the location.

Senior officials of Tinsukia Railway Division reached the site immediately along with relief train.

The section was restored and the stranded train left the site after the coach was re-railed.

Chief Public Relation Officer (CPRO) of NF Railway, Pranav Jyoti Sharma said that, prima facie enquiry has found that the train was within its stipulated speed, a departmental enquiry has been ordered to find out details about adherence to protocols.

“There has been a manifold increase in the incidents of elephant crossings during the recent past and trains are constantly slowed down whenever any information of herd movement is shared with the railway by the forest department. It is only because of the close coordination between field level officials of both the forest and railway department that as many as 200 imminent dashing have been prevented this year alone. However the
incidents have to be seen in the light of recent spurt of man – animal conflicts,” Pranav Jyoti Sharma said.

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