Guwahati: Yet another incident of man-animal conflict has come to fore wherein a middle-aged man was trampled to death by a wild elephant on Thursday.
The incident was reported from Tamulpur district of Assam along the Indo-Bhutan international border.
The deceased has been identified as one Nan Tima Bando.
According to reports, he was attacked by the jumbo while he was on his way to the jungle.
The human-elephant conflict has assumed alarming proportions in Assam this year and raised concerns among conservationists. Assam, which has the country’s second highest elephant population, is facing a rising trend in human-elephant conflict due to the wide destruction of forest lands.
Over the last ten years, 812 people and 900 elephants were killed as competition for land intensified in the state. The human casualties mostly occur during the dry season when the animals move out of their habitat in search of food and water.