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Elephant kills elderly citizens in Beldangi-I

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 10:37 PM PDT

A wild elephant trampled two exiled elderly citizens to death in Beldangi-I, Wednesday, creating panic in the camp.

The elephant entered into the camp through a community forest at the close vicinity at around 5:30 am this morning, informed Prem Dahal from Beldangi camp.

Camp Secretary of two Beldangi camps Dhan Bir Subba named those killed during the attack as Birkha Bahadur Rai, 68, of sector A-3 hut number 345 and Dataram Mongar, 70, of sector A-1, hut number 134. Both were the residents of Beldangi-I camp.

Police have taken dead bodies for postmortem to Bhadrapur of Jhapa.