Elephant kills cyclist in Dooars of Bengal, Leopard evacuated safely

In a fresh man-animal conflict a tusker today trampled to death a man while he was cycling on the highway to hisworking place in the Dooars of West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, forestranger Dulal Ghosh said.

The killing of man by the adult elephant happened in broad day light around Targhera jungle checkpost.

Eyewitnesses said the pachyderm came out of the forest on the state highway and picked up the panicked cyclist, who stopped paddling before the jumbo, from its trunk and hurled on metal road and stumped on the body. The deceased, identified as Priyanath Biswas (40), a carpenter by profession.

The body was sent for postmortem. The ranger said the bereaved family would be compensated accordingly. Elsewhere, a live leopard was today got into a trap inside the Simulbari tea estate. The leopard was also evacuated safely into a jungle.

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