Golaghat: A young farmer from Assam’s Golaghat district was killed on Friday by a rhinoceros in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR). The deceased, Mr. Amram Ganak, had gone to the Mahpara area of the park in Kohora range to attend his cultivation early morning when a wild male rhino attacked him.
They said Ganak was very seriously injured in the attack and that his fate was saved by forest guards who evacuated him to the nearby government hospital. Even after he received medical attention, he died due to the extent of the injuries he had received. The police have said that his body was taken for a postmortem examination to be conducted on it.
The event shows that conflict between the human population and the animals is becoming common in the area. Some residents in the region have complained that they are increasingly facing accidents or even attacks from wild animals, especially the rhino that often chase farmers near their fields. The two entities have been perpetrating their aggressiveness and are more frequent now, and they pose a great threat to the lives of the people of that region in terms of their sources of income.
The same tragic event was another case of a 38-year-old female from Kamrup district near Guwahati who was gored to death by a wild buffalo on Wednesday. The victim, who has been identified as Lakheswari Murari, was daily wages at a factory in Guwahati. It happened in the Changsari area near the National Highway 31. She was severely injured on the head, and Murari was also critically injured and admitted to the hospital and later died due to her injuries.
These two cases have again placed the issue of human-animal conflict in the state of Assam in a searchlight, thanks to its diversity and threatened status of wildlife habitat and increasing tendency of wildlife to attack humans. People are calling on the governments to put in place measures to prevent such skirmishes and protect the residents along the relevant conserve fringes.
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