A 59-year-old girl and a person have been killed and a four-year-old lady was injured in separate incidents of assaults by elephants in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district on Monday, officers mentioned.
Prakash Ekka (55) and Dayamani Tirki have been trampled to loss of life by a pachyderm after they have been visiting their fields situated within the forest and gathering forest produce in Jamuna village beneath the Tapkara police station space, a forest official mentioned.
Forest personnel have been attempting to thrust back the elephant from the spot to retrieve the our bodies, he mentioned.
In one other incident that occurred within the Kunkuri space close to Junglekona village, a four-year-old lady was attacked by an elephant when she was gathering Mahua fruits together with her dad and mom.
The lady was admitted at a hospital in Kunkuri, he added.
With the most recent incident in Jashpur, a complete of 19 folks have been killed in separate incidents of elephants’ assaults within the district over the past one yr, the official mentioned.
On June 7, a lady was trampled to loss of life by an elephant in Bagicha forest vary. On June 2, one other girl was killed in the same assault in Badalkhol wildlife sanctuary within the Jashpur district.
A number of incidents of human-elephant conflicts have been reported prior to now from densely forested northern Chhattisgarh, consisting of Surguja, Surajpur, Korba, Raigarh, Jashpur, Balrampur and Korea districts.
