Elephant kills woman in Assam, 2nd such case in a week

GUWAHATI: A 45-year-old woman was killed in an elephant attack in Assam’s Hojai district. This was a second such incident within a week in the state.

The woman, identified as Chinu Debnath, was attacked by the elephant while she was doing her household chores at Derapathar village in Kaki police station area on Thursday. She died on the spot, a forest official said. Her body was sent to Nagaon civil hospital for post-mortem examination.

Last Saturday, a wild elephant had trampled a 21 year-old woman, Jyoti Tanti, to death at Bahbariline in

Morongi

tea estate in Golaghat.