Wild Elephants Cause Fear in Nepal Border Villages

Jhapa. Fear has spread in the villages on the Nepal side after 14 wild elephants took shelter in the no-man's land area of Mechinagar Municipality-7 today all day. The no-man's land area where the elephants took shelter has bushes of sissoo and teak saplings growing in the Indian territory to the east. On the Nepal side, there are dense human settlements like Satighatta, Mechibasti, and Gairigaon.

Eyewitness GR Dhital said that a herd of elephants, including small calves, was seen in the bushes near the no-man's land since this morning. He said, "Those elephants have been staying there all day. We are afraid they might enter the village at any time."