KANCHANPUR, Nov 5: A herd of 22 adult wild elephants and calfs destroyed two houses at Jonapur, Bagbazar in Shuklaphanta Municipality-3 in Kanchanpur district on Saturday night.
The tuskers destroyed the houses of Deepak Humli and Bir Bahadur Chaudhary. They also gobbled the food grain and tore beddings and other clothes in the houses. The occupants of the houses saved their lives by escaping from the elephant rampage. Deepak's wife, a nursing woman, saved her life by hiding under the bed with her infant.
The locals evacuated after sirens were sounded and there was hullaballoo in the village. The elephants came from the Tarapur area of the Shuklaphanta National Park entered the settlement at 11 pm. The villagers could drive away the rampaging tuskers' herd only at 3 am today. The elephants went back to the nearby jungle only after fires were shot in the air. RSS
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