Wild jumbo tramples 1 to death

Shajid Khan · 9 April 2017 · 7322 views

At a time when Man-elephant conflict has taken worst turn in Udalguri district a man was trampled to death by a wild elephant at Gupakuna area under Dimakuchi PS of Udalguri district near the Indo-Bhutan border on Friday night.

Reportedly Jiten Kujur(45) was trampled to death,by wild jumbo while he came across a herd . Forest officials have retrieved the body and sent it to post-mortem on Saturday morning.

Shajid Khan

Recipient of The Annual Colosseum Awards 2014 & 2015 (by The Assam Tribune group), Shajid Khan is an Independent journalist based in Assam. He has contributed numerous political, socio-political stories for bountiful national,international as well as Assam based publications including The New York Times,Firstpost,The Telegraph. He also pens down analytic commentary on print and web based publications.