Elephants destroyed two houses, crops, and shops in Bihali area under Biswanath

The herd of 3-4 elephant entered the Baghmari and Balipukhuri area, Bihali around 12.30 pm on Sunday night from the forest side and destroyed two houses of namely Boudoraj Chetry and Raju Chetry, eat 10 sacks of rice and 2 sacks of lentils from a ration shop causing a lot of damage to the area.

However, no injuries of people in the area is reported.

The local people of the area informed the forest department officials about the elephant coming to the township area.

A local spokesperson said, the elephants have been roaming around the places of Bihali for long period and destroyed paddy crops and caused a lot of damage but still no political leader reached the spot neither they help them with something.

The local people demand the government for the compensation for the damage and also demand the forest department to prevent such attacks of wild elephants in the area in future.

Earlier in 2018 a herd of wild elephants which was also strayed out of Kaziranga National Park, sixth addition destroyed several houses and crops at Gohpur in Biswanath district and Chariduar near Assam Arunachal Border in Sonitpur district.

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