Assam | 67-Year-Old Man Killed in Man-Elephant Conflict

Diphu, July 10, 2019:

Early in the morning at around 9:45 am on Tuesday, a man in Hojai district of Assam was killed in the ongoing man-elephant conflict in the region.

When the man named Kolponat Chettri, hailing from the West Karbi Anglong-bordering Hojai District, aged 67, went out from his abode to check on his livestock grazing in the nearby forest, he was confronted by jumbos reportedly hailing from the wild forest of the neighboring district, which attacked and killed him.

While talking to media persons, the son of the deceased said that: "My father was a farmer, a cultivator of Karparlopon Daithora, Hojai district living neat the Hojai-West Karbi Anglong border' said.

Reacting to the incident, the Hojai district wildlife officer ranger B. Hasnu immediately reached out to the family of the deceased for further inquiry.

Elephant-human conflict is a result of habitat loss and fragmentation. When elephants and humans interact, there is conflict from crop raiding, injuries and deaths to humans caused by elephants, and elephants being killed by humans for reasons other than ivory and habitat degradation.

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