Out of control elephants wreak havoc on the Infia. Photo: AP
The story of the elephant who killed a 70-year-old woman in Raipal, India, came to his funeral to step on the victim’s corpse has even more detail. According to reports, the animal razed the woman’s house to the ground and killed the goats she was raising.
The details have now been published in the local Times of India newspaper. According to the publication, the elephant was not content with stepping on the victim’s body during the funeral.
Soon after, he roared and urged a dozen members of his pack to destroy everything in their path.
The place where the elephant victim lived.
The herd of elephants destroyed the old woman’s house and two other residences. He trampled and even killed a small herd of goats that he kept.
In India, elephants are considered sacred animals, above all because for the Hindu culture they represent intelligence, protection and are symbols of good luck.
However, as always, there are exceptions and not everything is generalizable with everything related ccomplex world of wild animal behavior, in this case of elephants.
An elephant in a national park in India. Photo: AP
Violent Indian elephant
Maya Murmuthe 70-year-old woman who was attacked by the elephant was collecting water in the village of Raipal in eastern India when she was surprised by the animal stepping on her.
Rasgovindpur police station inspector Lopamudra Nayak told the Press Trust of India that the woman died in hospital from her injuries.
They feed elephants in a national park in India.
But the issue didn’t stop there. That same afternoon, the elephant returned when the 70-year-old woman’s body lay on its funeral pyre.estuary.
The animal went to the body of the old woman, stepped on it again, threw it and left during the night, according to Trust of India’s press.
The violent elephant would have departed from the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. photo / file
How was the elephant’s journey from India?
One hypothesis is that the elephant moved from Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, in the state of Jharkhand, 200 km from Raipal, in the state of Odisha, Mayurbhanj district.
According to local reports, the second attack occurred while Ms. Murmu’s family was performing the last rites.
Elephants are sacred in India. Photo: AFP
It is unknown if anyone else was injured, but Murmu’s family carried out the ceremony after the elephant left.
Elephants attack humans
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, elephants kill around 100 people in India each year, although the figure can be as high as 300.
That’s why the Indian government limits life-threatening encounters between humans and elephants by marking giants with radio collars and alerting locals via text messages when beasts roam human-populated areas.
However, in many cases, cases are often not preventable.
The video above, which went viral, shows an elephant attacking a vehicle in South Africa in 2015.
Another more recent case, recorded last year, was that of Nichanat Manucham, a 19-year-old Thai girl, who was taking a photo with the elephant without realizing the danger in her life.
At some point, the animal began to wrap its trunk around its leg.
In a moment of chaos, the elephant lifted her into the air and destroyed the food stalls as she tried to shake off the girl, who had clung to her tusk to survive.
Miraculously, Nichanat suffered only minor injuries to his arm, while the animal was hit with a metal object during the attack to free his victim.
Source: Clarin
