One woman forest staff member was injured after being attacked by a wild elephant at the Bokakhat Panbari Reserve Forest area near Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve in Assam's Golaghat district on Wednesday evening, officials said.
The Forest Department received information that a single elephant was roaming in the village area in the Thondialam area, after which the department was engaged in security work to drive away the elephant.
In the video which had gone viral on social media, the deceased person is seen beating the elephant from the backside and the wild jumbo kicking him in a paddy field.
Goalpara (Assam), August 16: At least three people including a child were killed in a wild elephant attack in Assam's Goalpara district along the Assam-Meghalaya border.