Man injured in tusker attack in Dudhwa
Lakhimpur Kheri, Hindustan Times
September 15, 2023
The incident in Belrayan range of the Dudhwa Buffer Zone (DBZ) left a
villager Rampal, 38, seriously injured with multiple fractures to his left
leg while three others escaped the wrath of the tuskers
A herd of wild elephants charged a group of villagers in Bhulanpur village
under Tikunia police limits, early on Friday morning.
The incident in Belrayan range of the Dudhwa Buffer Zone (DBZ) left a
villager Rampal, 38, seriously injured with multiple fractures to his left
leg while three others escaped the wrath of the tuskers.
All the four villagers were sitting under an open hutment when the herd of
four wild elephants passed by.
The Belrayan range serves as a corridor for the wild elephants through
which they visit forests in neighbouring Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary
(KWS), DBZ, Dudhwa National Park etc.
Deputy director, DBZ, Saureesh Sahai, said that the injured villager had
been sent to a Lucknow hospital after initial treatment at the Kheri
district hospital. He said that following the incident, an alert had been
sounded in the area and forest department teams equipped with air-horns and
firecrackers had been deployed in the area to keep the tuskers at bay.
DTR authorities have resolved to carry out solar fencing along the forest
areas of Belrayan range.
A DTR official engaged with the solar fencing programme said that the
government had approved the proposal for solar fencing, stretching in an
area of around 15 km near Manjhra, Belrayan and Nighasan range forests.
He hoped that the fencing exercise would be carried out by the end of this
year.
The proposal for solar fencing in Belrayan and the Manjhra range, which
shares boundaries with KWS was mooted by then DTR field director Sanjay
Kumar Pathak after a tiger had killed six persons in the area between May
and June 2022.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/man-injured-in-tusker-attack-in-dudhwa-101694785944898.html
Man injured in tusker attack in Dudhwa
Lakhimpur Kheri, Hindustan Times
September 15, 2023
The incident in Belrayan range of the Dudhwa Buffer Zone (DBZ) left a
villager Rampal, 38, seriously injured with multiple fractures to his left
leg while three others escaped the wrath of the tuskers
A herd of wild elephants charged a group of villagers in Bhulanpur village
under Tikunia police limits, early on Friday morning.
The incident in Belrayan range of the Dudhwa Buffer Zone (DBZ) left a
villager Rampal, 38, seriously injured with multiple fractures to his left
leg while three others escaped the wrath of the tuskers.
All the four villagers were sitting under an open hutment when the herd of
four wild elephants passed by.
The Belrayan range serves as a corridor for the wild elephants through
which they visit forests in neighbouring Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary
(KWS), DBZ, Dudhwa National Park etc.
Deputy director, DBZ, Saureesh Sahai, said that the injured villager had
been sent to a Lucknow hospital after initial treatment at the Kheri
district hospital. He said that following the incident, an alert had been
sounded in the area and forest department teams equipped with air-horns and
firecrackers had been deployed in the area to keep the tuskers at bay.
DTR authorities have resolved to carry out solar fencing along the forest
areas of Belrayan range.
A DTR official engaged with the solar fencing programme said that the
government had approved the proposal for solar fencing, stretching in an
area of around 15 km near Manjhra, Belrayan and Nighasan range forests.
He hoped that the fencing exercise would be carried out by the end of this
year.
The proposal for solar fencing in Belrayan and the Manjhra range, which
shares boundaries with KWS was mooted by then DTR field director Sanjay
Kumar Pathak after a tiger had killed six persons in the area between May
and June 2022.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/man-injured-in-tusker-attack-in-dudhwa-101694785944898.html