Elderly woman dies in elephant attack in Kanchanpur

Mahendranagar, Nov 11: An elderly woman died after being attacked by a herd of wild elephants at Shuklaphanta municipality-2 in Kanchanpur district on Tuesday night. According to the Jhalari Area Police Office, the victim was identified as Laxmi Dagaura, 60, of Shuklaphanta-2 who died on the spot after being trampled by the elephants. The herd entered Tarapur settlement, located within Shuklaphanta National Park, and damaged Dagaura’s house before trampling her to death, said a local resident Chhabilal Dagaura of Ranipur.

Laxmi and her husband, Mohan Dagaura, were asleep inside the house when the elephants entered the settlement. Mohan managed to escape unharmed. The Rising Nepal is Nepal’s first English broadsheet daily published by the Gorkhapatra Corporation, an undertaking of the Government of Nepal.

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