Suraj Chaudhari, 60, and Sudarshan Chaudhari, 29 of Sapahi-7, Juguwa were killed in the elephant attacked on Thursday at around 8 in night. [break]“We were patrolling in the village where two people were trampled to death by the elephant two days ago. But again two more people succumbed in the tusker attacks,” said Police Inspector Binod Kumar Yadav, at Kolhwi police post. “After the consecutive incidents of tusker attacks, the locals are frightened,” Inspector Yadav added.
“People were enjoying the warmth of fire in the village. The elephant entered the village suddenly and I shouted out to my fellow villagers to warn them of the danger. It was going toward the house of Suraj Chaudhari,” said a local Ramjohan Chaudhari.
According to the locals who witnessed the killing, Suraj was asleep in his home when the elephant started destroying his house. “Suraj tried to flee out from his home, but to no avail as the marauding elephant caught him by its trunk and threw him forcefully to the ground,” said witness Binod Saha.
According to the locals, the ravaging elephant destroyed nothing but only killed people. “The recently harvested paddy elsewhere has been untouched. It came as if only to kill people,” said Kalawati Devi.
After the incident, the local stopped the body from being taken for autopsy. Displaying the body, they organized a sit-in outside the police office demanding immediate control of the tusker attack. After the police expressed its commitment to control the elephant attack, the bodies were taken for postmortem.
A team of the administrative and forest officials led by the Chief District Officer Thaman Singh Thapa visited the elephant affected area before their meeting to discuss on checking the wild elephant attacks in the human settlement.
“I had called the meeting to discuss on the elephant terror among the people. The meeting has decided to call elephant experts immediately to control the tusker attack. The meeting also decided to provide Rs 50 thousand rupees to the families of deceased to perform last rites,” said Thapa.
Acting District Forest Officer, Rakesh Karna, informed that the expert team from National Trust For Nature Conservation, Chitwan has already left for the affected area.
Earlier on Tuesday night, Devika Achharya, 45 of Word no-4 and the Sharada Sharma, 40 of Ward no -1 of the same VDC were killed in the tusker attack. A child was also injured in that attack. Nevertheless, it is yet to be proved that the same elephant was involved in the both attack.
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