A 40-year-old woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district, a Forest Department official said on Tuesday. The woman, identified as Phulmati, was attacked in Kudkelkhajri village in the Pathalgaon Forest Range on Monday night when she was walking with her husband, he said.
While her husband managed to escape, the elephant caught hold of Phulmati and slammed her on the ground with its trunk, he said.
A team of forest personnel rushed to the spot and chased away the elephant, he said.
The kin of the deceased have been provided an instant relief of Rs 25,000 while the remaining compensation of Rs 5.75 lakh will be given later, an official said.
Villagers were alerted as two herds of 24 elephants had entered Jashpur district from the forests of neighbouring Odisha and Jharkhand states and destroyed crops in several villages on the inter-state borders, the official said.
Several incidents of human-elephant conflict had been reported from densely-forested northern Chhattisgarh's Surguja, Surajpur, Korba, Raigarh, Jashpur, Balrampur and Korea districts.
