Four Killed in Elephant Attacks in Cooch Behar, India

As a herd of six giant elephants roamed the Dinhata subdivision for a second day after wandering from the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary 60 kilometers away in the Alipurduar district, four people were killed in elephant attacks in Cooch Behar on Friday.

Four of the elephants were successfully led by foresters into the Patlakhawa forest in Cooch Behar on Friday night. In order to stop more casualties and property damage, they intend to tranquilize the two surviving elephants if necessary.

"Elephant assaults have claimed four lives. We are attempting to move the remaining two elephants into the Patlakhawa jungle after successfully driving four of them there. Bijon Kumar Nath, the Cooch Behar division's additional divisional forest officer, said, "Arrangements are also being made to tranquilize and move the two into the jungle.

The herd was unexpected by the residents of Dinhata's Matalhat panchayat on Thursday morning when they saw it on the fields. The herd seemed to have wandered into the region from the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary, according to foresters who arrived at the scene.

As the elephants traveled from one field to another, hundreds of people flooded the communities, and they attempted to guide the herd back into the jungle. When the situation got out of hand, the Dinhata sub-divisional administration was forced to impose prohibitory orders under CrPC Section 144, which limited people's ability to assemble and drive in four villages.

Defying foresters' attempts to push them into the forest, the herd subsequently moved on to the nearby Sitalkuchi region.

A resident of Choto Salbari named Majid Mian was hurt by an elephant. After being taken in for urgent care, he was sent to the Mathabhanga subdivisional hospital.

From there, one of the herd members assaulted Budheshwar Adhikary, 65, who was cutting grass for his cattle, as they reached Taurikata, a hamlet in Mathabhanga-II block. He was saved by locals, who then took him to a rural medical facility in Nishiganj, where medical professionals declared him dead.

Ananda Pramanik, sixty-one, was working in his field when he was assaulted by one of the herd's elephants in the same location.

The elephants attacked and murdered Rekha Rani Roy, 68, and Jayanti Sarkar, 48, as the herd reached the Unishibisha region of Mathabhanga.

Nobody could remember a case in which four people had perished in north Bengal due to elephant assaults in a single day.

Elephant pathways have split and narrowed, allowing them to infiltrate human areas. Wildlife conservationist Shyamaprasad Pandey, who is located in Jalpaiguri, suggested that the forest department move quickly to repair the corridors.

Teams of foresters followed the police as the elephants traveled from one location to another.