Bengaluru, June 5 (IANS) The wife of senior IPS officer Annalamada Sunil Achaiah, Sandhya Achaiah (51), was killed in a wild elephant attack at her coffee estate in Konanakatte village near Thithimathi in Karnataka’s Kodagu district on Friday morning.Following the incident, Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar spoke to the bereaved officer over the phone and expressed his condolences.According to an official statement, the Chief Minister conveyed deep sorrow over the tragedy and assured the family tha…
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Guwahati, May 15 (IANS) Two persons lost their lives in separate incidents of wild elephant attacks in Assam’s Nagaon district on Friday, once again highlighting the growing human-elephant conflict in several parts of the state, officials said.According to local sources, the first incident took place at Bajiagaon in Samaguri, where a wild elephant attacked a man identified as Shariful Islam while he was working in a vegetable field. The elephant reportedly emerged from a nearby forested area a…
Agartala, April 4 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, after visiting the house of an elderly woman who was trampled to death by a wild elephant in the state’s Khowai district early on Saturday, said the state government would do whatever possible to help the affected tribal family. The incident took place at Jumbari village under Teliamura subdivision in Khowai district when the victim, identified as 70-year-old Manimala Debbarma, was attacked by a wild elephant in the courtyard of he…
Agartala, April 4 (IANS) An elderly woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Tripura’s Khowai district early on Saturday, sparking unrest in the affected area.The incident took place at Jumbari village under Teliamura subdivision when the victim, identified as Manimala Debbarma, 70, was attacked in the courtyard of her house in the early hours of the day, officials said.The victim’s son, Ajit Debbarma, said the elephant suddenly attacked his mother early on Saturday, fatally injuring …
Ramgarh (Jharkhand), April 3 (IANS) Three people were trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants in the Gola block of Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district on Friday morning, triggering fear and anger among area residents.The victims include two brick kiln labourers and an elderly villager. The first incident occurred around 4 a.m. in Banda village, where Dheeraj Bhuiyan and Jugal Bhuiyan had stepped out when a herd of elephants surrounded and fatally attacked them. Dheeraj was a resident of Talatan…
Ranchi, Feb 19 (IANS) The issue of elephant attacks reverberated through the Jharkhand Assembly on Thursday, as MLAs raised alarm over the increasing number of deaths and demanded urgent government intervention.On the second day of the Budget Session, Mandu MLA Nirmal Mahto of All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) staged a sit-in protest on the steps of the Assembly, holding a banner and accusing the state government and the Forest Department of gross negligence in tackling the escalating man-anim…
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Feb 13 (IANS) At least six people were trampled to death after a herd of wild elephants stormed Gondwar village in the Churchu block of Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district late Thursday night, officials said on Friday. The incident triggered panic and grief in the area.Four of the deceased belonged to a single family. The victims have been identified as Suraj Bhuiyan (55), his daughter-in-law Suman Devi (25), her two young children, Mangara Bhuiyan (58), and Dhaneshwar Ram …
Colombia, Jan 11 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s Minister of Environment Dammika Patabendi has directed officials to renovate elephant fences damaged by Cyclone Ditwah within one week.The ministry announced on Sunday that the order was issued during a progress review meeting held on Saturday on the restoration of fences severely affected by last month’s cyclone, reports Xinhua news agency.The ministry said extensive damage has been reported across a number of areas affected by the Human Elephant Conflict (HE…