Couple killed in elephant attack in Balrampur, Chattisgarh

A wild elephant trampled a couple to death when they went to a forest near their village in Chhattisgarh’s Balrampur district on Tuesday morning, forest officials said.

This was the second such incident in the state in three days. On Sunday, two labourers working on a road project were killed in a similar elephant attack in Manendragarh‑Chirmiri‑Bharatpur district.

The latest incident occurred at around 5 am on Tuesday in a forest area near Kundi village under



the Rajpur forest range of Balrampur, an official said.

Juthan Gond (65) and his wife Sundari Bai (55) came face-to-face with an elephant that had strayed into the village from a herd of five jumbos roaming in the Kalyanpur forest area. The elephant attacked the couple and both of them died on the spot, he said.

Villagers alerted the forest department soon after the incident, following which forest personnel reached the spot and sent bodies for post-mortem, the official said.