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Kathmandu Saturday November 11, 2000 Kartik 26, 2057.
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Wild elephant driven away
Post Report
CHITWAN, Nov 10 - A wild male elephant
which has been terrorising local people for the last month in the tourist area of Sauraha
and Padampur, was chased towards India from the Chure hills of the national park on
Wednesday.
The wild elephant had destroyed dozens of
houses, sheds and paddy crops belonging to the people of Sauraha and Padampur over the
past month.
Even the foreign tourists and local hotel
entrepreneurs were scared after they saw the wild elephant in Sauraha in broad daylight.
The wild elephant had also attacked two
domestic elephants of the Sauraha elephant shed on Tuesday, an employee told The Kathmandu
Post.
Chief warden of the national park Gopal
Prasad Upadhyaya told The Kathmandu Post Friday that the elephant had come to the national
park from India and was vexing the locals. It was driven back to India with the help of 30
elephants belonging to the national park.
The people of Ayodhyapuri VDC ward Nos 8
and 9 had repeatedly been requesting the national park authorities to drive away the
elephant.
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