In yet another instance of man-elephant conflict, five persons and a tusker were killed in the Bardhaman district in south Bengal in the past two days.
Senior forest officers said they were attempting to rescue a male elephant that had strayed into human habitation along with the tusker from the forests of Bankura district. According to latest reports, the male elephant had entered the Nadia district.
“We tried to tranquillise the tusker. It had strayed into muddy rice fields. Though we arranged for vehicles to bring the animal to the main road, it died after the tranquilisation,” a senior forest official told The Hindu.
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