JHAPA, Dec 20: An office assistant working at a local-level ward office in Jhapa was killed in an attack by a wild elephant. The deceased has been identified as 55-year-old Pathal Rajbanshi, the office assistant at Haldibari Rural Municipality-2.
Contact with Rajbanshi was lost after he went for a morning walk, said Dhundiraj Giri, Police Inspector at the District Police Office. The family members mounted a search for him after he did not return home and he was found lying dead in a drain.
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A team from the District Forest Division Office and police is conducting an investigation in this connection and Rajbanshi's body has been taken to the Mechi Provincial Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
Two people were killed in wild elephant attacks in Haldibari and Damak in November before this.
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