Chhattisgarh Man Trampled To Death By Wild Elephant, 2nd Incident This Month

Mohitram Yadav (39) was attacked by the jumbo in Ongna village under Dharamjaigarh forest division at around 3 am when he was out to answer nature's call, a forest official said.

A villager was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district on Wednesday, the second such incident in the region this month, officials said. Mohitram Yadav (39) was attacked by the jumbo in Ongna village under Dharamjaigarh forest division at around 3 am when he was out to answer nature's call, a forest official said. The elephant caught hold of the man with its trunk and trampled him to death, he said. After being alerted, forest personnel reached the village, located over 250 km from the state capital Raipur, and shifted the body for postmortem, he said.