Kumari Tamang, 55, and Suk Ram Sunar, 60, of Ayodhyapuri-9, Pyauli died when the wild tuskers came out of the Chitwan National Park and attacked the village at two in the morning.[break]
Kumari´s husband Aslal and his other wife Hari Maya were injured while around a dozen houses and crops in the village were also destroyed.
“We spent the night at Pyauli hill lighting bonfires to save our lives after we heard elephants trumpet near the village in the evening,” Sukum Bahadur Tamang, a local, said. The locals climbed the Pyauli hill thinking that elephants can´t make a steep climb.
Even children and women spent the night on the hill, and the locals were busy preparing their dinners early to leave for the hill Monday evening. “I am sick and cannot climb the hill. So, I remained at home risking my life,” Kanchhi Maya Tamang told Republica.
The village is just 20 yards away from the national park and the 40 households in Pyauli have been bearing the tuskers´ ire every year.
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