Elephants have caused millions <\/a>of dollars\u2019 worth of damage to agricultural operations, and they are often killed in retaliation, according to the WWF.<\/p>\nWhat To Know<\/p>\n
The killings reportedly occurred between January 1 and 9, and there is one young single tusker elephant responsible. The rampage has created panic in the rural district of West Sinhgbhum.<\/p>\n
Aditya Narayan, a government forest officer, told the AFP, “We are trying to trace and rescue this violent wild elephant that killed so many people.”<\/p>\n
The BBC reported that among the dead are adults and children.<\/p>\n
34-year-old Mangal Sing Hembram was attacked near his home while returning from work, 62-year-old Urdub Bahoda was killed while watching his field, and Vishnu Sundi, 42, was trampled to death while sleeping outside of his house.<\/p>\n
On the 5th of January, a man named Kundra Bahoda was killed along with his two children, 6-year-old Kodama and 8-year-old Samu.<\/p>\n
His wife, Pundi, said that she had escaped with her injured 2-year-old daughter and later found out that her husband and two older children had died.<\/p>\n
Some 15 people have been injured, and villages are barricading themselves inside.<\/p>\n
Officials have said that the elephant was young and agile. It frequently changed its location, particularly at night. This has, in turn, made it difficult to track.<\/p>\n
Drum alerts have been used to warn residents and advise people not to go outdoors or sleep outside at night.<\/p>\n
More than 300 personnel are involved in trying to locate the animal, with search teams using drones and tranquilizer units.<\/p>\n
However, the animal has continually slipped away into the dense forests. \u00a0<\/p>\n
What People Are Saying<\/p>\n
Kuldeep Meena, a divisional forest official, told the BBC: “This is an unprecedented situation. It’s the first time such a pattern of fatalities has been linked to a single male elephant in the region.”<\/p>\n
What Happens Next?<\/p>\n
As of reporting, the elephant remains at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild elephant has killed at least 20 people over a nine-day rampage in the forests of Jharkhand,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[8609,31384,2344,79,39691,201],"class_list":["post-419535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-death","tag-elephant","tag-india","tag-science","tag-wild-animals","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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