Elephant herd tramples elderly women to death in Chamarajanagara taluk

Chamarajanagar, Jan 20 (UNI) A 70-year-old women was trampled to death by wild elephants
herd at Mahantalapura village in Chamarajanagara taluk in an agricultural field.

Forest officials said on Sunday that the incident came into light this morning when the villagers
found the body of women on Sunday after the attack by elephants on Saturday evening.

As the news spread, the enraged villagers blocked the national highway 209 that cut through the
village, for some time till police arrived to clear the vehicular traffic.

The deceased women was identified as Shivamma.

The incident took place when Shivamma ventured out of the house late Saturday evening as the
a herd of wild elephants that included a tusker, a female and a calf, entered Hasanakatte hamlet
near Managala village. This created panic among the villagers as the herd destroyed the crop
fields and many other things.

The elephants were again sighted behind sericulture department building at Hasanakatte and
the forest staff led in-charge RFO Mahadevaiah even bursted crackers to drive the elephant back
to the forest. Instead, the panicked elephants started running here and there, and entered a
sugar cane field and thus they might have trampled the woman there, officials said.

Bilirangana Tiger Reserve Conservator of Forests Dr Shankar, ACF Nagaraju, Tahasildar
Purandra and others visited the spot and met the villagers to convince them to withdraw protest.

The protesting villagers demanded compensation to the woman's family and the farmers who
lost their crops.

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