Wild Elephants Terrorize Bahundangi, Nepal Residents

Jhapa. Mid-June is the main time for farmers to sweat it out in the fields to harvest the year's grain. However, residents of Bahundangi, Mechinagar-4 in Jhapa are currently plagued by worries about saving their lives and property rather than the rush of paddy transplantation.

Wild elephants, including calves, coming from India have started gathering in the village during the day, forcing the residents here to live in fear. Herds of elephants, numbering 40 to 50 daily, sometimes return to India and sometimes stay in the tea gardens and bushes of Bahundangi all day. Local residents say that since elephants with calves are more aggressive, there is a fear of when an untoward incident might occur in the village.