GUWAHATI
The two incidents in Sonitpur district were reported from the Dhekiajuli area, about 130 km northeast of Guwahati. The Karbi Anglong incident occurred in a village about 230 km east of Guwahati. Policeman Amzad Ali was killed on September 6 after a wild elephant raided the 17th Assam Police Battalion camp in Goalpara’s Dakurbhita. Umakanta Moran, a 39-year-old farmer, was trampled to death near Digboi in Tinsukia district on September 7. Another person died similarly in Goalpara district on September 14. The strategy entails providing ₹6 lakh as ex-gratia to the kin of people killed in human-elephant conflicts within 72 hours of the death.
The deceased in Sonitpur district were identified as Rahmat Ali of No. The Karbi Anglong victim was identified as Ambika Tokbipi, a woman. Toppo came across the same elephant in a neighbouring village and died trying to shield his two children. The two children, aged five and seven years, sustained injuries.
2 Pirakata village and Ganesh Toppo of Ratanjuli village. Locals said Ali was at home, engaged in household work, when a wild elephant emerged from a nearby forest and damaged his house at around 5.30 a.m.
