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Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh), March 18 Two tusks belonging to a young elephant were seized from a house in the Tirupati district, a forest official said on Wednesday.The tusks were recovered on Tuesday from the possession of the accused, who has been taken into custody."Two tusks belonging to a...

Ahmedabad, March 11 A five-year-old boy was killed by a lioness in the Amreli district of Gujarat, a forest official said on Wednesday.The incident occurred at Manavav village in the Dhari taluka on Tuesday evening.The lioness attacked the son of a farm labourer from Madhya Pradesh. As...

Latehar (Jharkhand), March 6 An elderly man was killed by a wild elephant in Latehar district, Jharkhand, a forest official said on Friday.The incident occurred around 10 pm on Thursday in Bhandar Toli village, under the Chandwa Police Station, when he went outside his house to relieve...

Wayanad (Kerala), March 4 A farmer died in Sulthan Bathery on Wednesday morning, reportedly due to an elephant attack.According to local residents of Vadakkanad in Sulthan Bathery, the victim, Rajeev, had gone to drive away an elephant that had entered his farm.However, when he did not...

Korba, March 2 A 26-year-old man was attacked and killed by a bear in the Korba district of Chhattisgarh, a forest official said on Monday.The body of Santosh Kumar Gond, a resident of Salaigot village in the Kendai range of the Katghora forest division, was found in the nearby forest in the...

Ranchi, February 27 A wild elephant entered Jharkhand's capital, Ranchi, on Friday morning, causing panic among locals, a forest official said.The elephant was roaming in the Hawai Nagar area, and a team of forest officials has been deployed to drive the animal out of the city, he said."The...

Gondia, Feb 22 A leopard died after it was hit by an unidentified vehicle on a national highway in Maharashtra's Gondia district in the early hours of Sunday, a forest official said.The incident occurred around 1:30 am on the Nainpur-Duggipaar Road on NH 53, under the Sadak Arjuni forest...

Ranchi, February 13 At least six people, including four members of a family, were killed by a herd of wild elephants in the Hazaribag district of Jharkhand on Friday, a forest official said.The herd, which had attacked several people in the past few days, entered the Gondwar village in the...