GUWAHATI: Three of a family were killed by a herd of wild elephants in Lakhipur area in lower Assam’s Goalpara district on Sunday night as floods have pushed jumbos from wetlands to villages in one of the worst human-elephant conflict-affected districts of the state.
The victims have been identified as Momin Ali (85), Zahura Bibi (80) and Sameeran Bibi (55) of Salbari part II village. The wild elephants continued to destroy houses in the village at the time of filing this report on Monday evening, though no further casualty has taken place. Garun Nagar reserve forest is close to the village from where the herd went on the rampage on Monday night.
“For the last one month, the elephants were roaming in and around Dhamar Beel wetland and were also feeding on the summer paddy. However, they changed their location of late and came near human habitation recently,” said Dhruba Dutta, forest range officer, Lakhipur.
