VISAKHAPATNAM: The NCRB’s ‘Accidental Deaths and Suicides’ data has found that 31 people were killed by animals in Andhra Pradesh in 2018. There were 25 human casualties in 2019 and 32 people were killed by animals in 2020. Further, the state has been recording at least 30 human casualties in conflicts with elephants, bears and wild boars a year for the last few years.
This has brought to the fore the intensity of human-animal conflict in some parts of the state.