Woman trampled to death by wild elephant in Chhattisgarh,
A 40-year-old girl was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district on Saturday, a forest official mentioned.
Bisahin Bai Vishwakarma, a resident of Dharampur village, was attacked by the jumbo when she was travelling along with her husband and niece on a motorbike in the morning, the official mentioned.
The couple have been employed underneath the MGNREGA scheme and have been heading to Bijradih village underneath Bagbahra forest vary, the place a pond deepening work was underway, he mentioned.
The couple got here face to face with a tusker, who caught maintain of the lady and trampled her to death, whereas the others managed to flee, he mentioned.
Forest personnel rushed to the spot and the physique was despatched for autopsy, he mentioned, including that the kin of the deceased got an prompt aid Rs 25,000, whereas the remaining compensation of Rs 5.75 lakh will probably be disbursed on completion of vital formalities.
Several incidents of human-elephant conflicts have been reported in the previous couple of years in villages of Mahasamund, which shares borders with Raigarh district and neighbouring Odisha, from the place elephants typically enter the area.
On May 14, a person was killed in an analogous assault in Parsadih village of Mahasamund.
