Herd of elephants trample man to death in Bengal, India

Soren was gored to death by the elephants

    

With shrinking forests owing to increasing human pressure, the man-animal conflict is on the rise. The latest in this regards is the killing of a man by a wild elephant in the forests of Bankura district of West Bengal on Monday.

This unfortunate incident occurred in Gokul Mathura village under Barjora Forest Range in the district when a herd of elephants gored a man to death in Bankura district, said a forest official.

He said that an old man whose name was Biswanath Soren and was around 65 years old, was sleeping under bamboo thickets on the edge of forest when a herd of at least a dozen elephants while passing through the area attacked him.

Soren was gored to death by the elephants, said Divisional Forest Officer of Bankura (North).

Earlier in April, a forest guard was killed in tusker attack in Onda under Panchet Forest Division in Bankura district.

Prior to the present incident, a forest official was attacked and injured by an elephant in Jalpaiguri district on Sunday (May 10).

Referring to the Sunday's incident, a forest official said that a herd of elephants had entered the Bhandiguri tea estate. While efforts were on by forest staff to drive them away, range officer Sanjay Dutta was attacked by one of the elephants. He sustained minor injuries on his hand, said a forest official of the Jalpaiguri forest division.