Elephant tramples 70-year-old woman to death in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district

An elephant trampled a 70-year-old woman to death at a village in Dhenkanal on Saturday morning, making her the sixth person to die in human-elephant conflict in the Odisha district this month.

Police identified the victim as Satyabati Swain of Kaurianpal village under Sadar forest range of Dhenkanal, located about 105 km northwest of state capital Bhubaneswar.

According to forest and wildlife officials, the elephant attacked Swain when she had gone to attend nature’s call.

On the other side of human-elephant conflict, a female jumbo was injured after being hit by a train while crossing railway tracks near Rasasingh in Dhenkanal on Friday night.

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