A school teacher was killed when an elephant attacked a passenger bus in Ramnagar of Nainital district on Saturday. A bus of Kumaon Motor Owners Union (KMOU) was on its way to Bageshwar from Ramnagar on Saturday early morning. A tusker confronted the bus in Kath ki Nav village in Mandal range of the Kalagarh forest range.
According to the eye witnesses, the driver tried to sped away from the pachyderm but it attacked the bus and broke its windscreen in the process. The elephant in search of food inside the bus also struck one Girish Chand Pandey with its trunk. Pandey sustained injuries in the attack and died on way to the hospital. The other passengers of the bus ran to safety while the Tusker was damaging the bus.