A wild elephant killed a woman in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district, a forest officer said on Tuesday.
Indarmania (52) was attacked when she went to collect wood with two other women in a forest near Karanjwar-Sarhari village in the Pratappur forest range, Surajpur Divisional Forest Officer B.S. Bhagat said.
The elephant trampled the woman to death while the two other women managed to escape.
The family of the deceased was given an instant relief amount of Rs 25,000.