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Tuskers driving Jhapa folk mad
JHAPA, JUL 22 -
“I survived the attack by fleeing. If I hadn’t took flight, I would have been killed by wild elephants,” Kanchhi Maya Poudel of Bahundangi-8 told the Post on Wednesday.
On Wednesday night, a herd of wild elephants broke into the settlement and damaged her three-room wooden house. She is now taking refuge at her neighbour’s house along with her children.
“As the elephants started demolishing my kitchen I immediately fled with kids,” Poudel reminisced about the fearsome attack. Her house was badly damaged beyond repair by the rampaiging tuskers. Like Poudel, locals of Bahundangi VDC every year face attacks of elephants who enter into Nepali territory from nearby Indian forests.
Kumari Rai of Bahundangi-6 is another victim of tusker attack. She has no place to go after her house was destroyed on Wednesday. “My house was badly damaged and I don’t have money to rebuild it.,” he shared her ordeal.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Parshuram Giri at Bahundangi Police Post said wild elephants destroyed about two dozen houses and damaged crops worth thousands of rupees in the past two days.
“We will prepare the deail report of the loss incurred in the elephant attack and send it to the District Administration Office for compensation,” said Giri.
Villagers have been complaining the victims of elephant attacks have not received any compensation yet.
Posted on: 2010-07-23 08:25
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