IPS officer, wife injured in jumbo attack in Chhattisgarh

RAIPUR: A superintendent of police (SP) and his wife were severely injured in an attack by elephants in a village in the forest region of Chhattisgarh’s Pendra on Wednesday evening. Four foresters were also injured. Local media reports said that a female elephant coiled its trunk around Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi SP

Trilok Bansal

and slammed him on the ground, but Marwahi divisional forest officer Sanjay Tripathi said the

Bansal

couple were injured while being chased by the elephant.


The SP has suffered head injuries and was shifted to a private hospital in Bilaspur, around 100km away, after preliminary treatment in the

district hospital

, said Tripathi.