• Monday, 20 January 2025

Wild elephants terrorise locals in Sarlahi

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By Our Correspondent,Sarlahi, Jan. 20: Locals in Jankinagar of Haripur Municipality-1 in Sarlahi district have been terrified after wild elephants entered the village. 

Elephants that entered in groups have destroyed their houses and crops planted in the fields. 

Three wild elephants, which have been spotted for the past four days, have terrorised the residents. The elephant has destroyed three houses in four days.

According to locals, an elephant destroyed the houses of Prem Bahadur Lama and Keshav Upreti near Janakinagar Partnership Forest on Sunday morning. On Friday night, a group of elephants destroyed the house of Tulmaya Magar, a local.

Nanibabu Thapa, Ward Chairperson of Haripur Municipality-1, said that the elephants have already destroyed crops including sugarcane, wheat and maize planted by local farmers on more than two bighas of land. 

Ward Chairperson Thapa, said that he had appealed to the Division Forest Office demanding control of wild elephants. 

Locals have demanded to install lights on the electricity poles across the settlement, but the budget could not be allocated due to the absence of the Chief Administrative Officer in the municipality office for the last three months, said Thapa. 

According to locals, the group of elephants live in the nearby forest throughout the day and enter the human settlement at night and they destroy houses, eat stored grains and destroy the crops planted in the fields.

Wild elephants have created panic among the locals in Janakinagar, Murtia, Ghurkauli and other settlements around the forest area. 

Chief of Division Forest Office, Sarlahi, Santosh Jha, said that neither the Forest Office nor the national park could do anything to control the wild elephants. 

He urged the locals not to tease elephants and stay safe. Division Forest Chief Jha said compensation would be provided as per rules if elephants damage houses or crops. 

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