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Woman trampled to death by wild elephant in Chhattisgarh
    Korba (C'garh), Oct 14 (PTI) A 45-year-old woman was
trampled to death by a wild elephant in Korba district of
Chhattisgarh on Sunday, police said.
    The incident occurred early morning in Gudrumuda
Manjhipara village under Katghora forest division when the
woman, identified as Dukalin Bai, was going to a farmland
close to the forest, a forest official said.
    The victim came face to face with the elephant and
tried to escape, but the pachyderm lifted her with its trunk
and slammed her on the ground killing her on the spot, he
said.
    After being alerted about the incident, a team of
police and forest officials rushed to the spot and the body
was sent for post-mortem, he said.
    The kin of the deceased were given immediaterelief of
Rs 25,000 while the remaining Rs 3.75 lakh will be given upon
completion of all formalities, official added.
    Notably, the thickly forested northern Chhattisgarh,
comprising Surguja,Korba, Raigarh, Jashpur and Korea
districts, are notorious for incidents of human-elephant
conflict.
    The region has witnessed killings of several people
and damages to houses and crops by wildelephantsin the last
few years. PTI COR TKP
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