Elephant attack in Jalpaiguri tea estate

Two residents of the Kumlai tea estate of Malbazar in Jalpaiguri were injured in an elephant attack on Saturday morning.

Injured Ram Kishan Tirkey and Christopher Toppo are hospitalised. Till evening, foresters were trying to steer the elephant back to the Bhuttabari forest from where it came.

In Alipurduar, eight elephants from Volka forest entered a village in Kumargram on Saturday. Villagers said no jumbo had been sighted in the village these past four decades.

Moloy Kumar Lodh, the range officer, said they were keeping watch on the herd.