Tripura: 65-yr-old man trampled to death by elephant
Agencies | May 09, 2019
A 62-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant near a jungle in Khowai's North Ghilatali on Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as Chitta Mohan Debbarma. Debbarma had gone to the nearby jungle to collect firewood when the wild elephant attacked him.
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However, he added that during the month of March the forest department wanted to arrange for guards in the villages but it was not allowed.
"If that arrangement would have been allowed, this incident could have been avoided," he said.
Besides deaths caused by wild tuskers in Tripura, there are also regular incidents of attack by wild bears.
The man-elephant tussle is reaching monstrous proportions in the Ghilatali area where during the last three years, at least nine persons have been killed in such attacks.
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