Guwahati: A two-year-old girl died in her mother’s arms after both of them were hit during an effort by the Ministry of Forestry Personnel Assam to expel herd of wild elephants by firing in the air at Assam’s Kumbrup (rustic) of the district on Friday.
Police Boko said the incident occurred around 4pm in Kukurmara Village.
“There is a flock of wild elephants in the fields for the past two days.
Today, the Forestry Department personnel together with the police tried to expel the herd.
Many locals gathered at the perimeter.” “Forest personnel fired rubber bullets in the air and suddenly the commotion began on the other side of the field when the two-year-old girl in her mother was hit by her neck.
She died instantly.
His mother, who was also injured, was treated in Gautati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), “added the police.
The mother has been identified as Malabika Daimary and her daughter named Arbi.
“We have to wait for post-mortem reports,” the police said.
Officials: will investigate if the bullet hit the forest conservator, the central Assam Circle, Hem Kanta Talukdar, said the forestry department used rubber bullets to fire the scare elephant.
“Because there was a shot in the air from our side to drive an elephant and a child died and his mother was injured, we would definitely ask if one of the rubber bullets hit the child and his mother,” Talukdar said.
Flocks are still in the fields until they submit this report.
With the harvest season continuing in the state, rice fields attract wild elephants in areas where human residence has violated elephant habitat.
Areas near the site that runs along the Assam-Meghalaya border until the goal is part of the main Jumbo Treaty that connects some elephant habitats.