Woman trampled to death by wild elephant

A 45-year-old woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Korba district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred early morning in Gudrumuda Manjhipara village under Katghora forest division when the woman, identified as Dukalin Bai, was going to a farmland close to the forest, a forest official said.

The victim came face to face with the elephant and tried to escape, but the pachyderm lifted her with its trunk and slammed her on the ground killing her on the spot, he said. After being alerted about the incident, a team of police and forest officials rushed to the spot and the body was sent for post-mortem, he said.

The kin of the deceased was given immediate relief of Rs 25,000 while the remaining Rs 3.75 lakh will be given upon completion of all formalities, officially added. Notably, the thickly forested northern Chhattisgarh, comprising Surguja, Korba, Raigarh, Jashpur and Korea districts, are notorious for incidents of human-elephant conflict.

The region has witnessed killings of several people and damages to houses and crops by wild elephants in the last few years.