{"id":272577,"date":"2025-10-22T01:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=272577"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:50:18","slug":"two-killed-in-yet-another-elephant-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/two-killed-in-yet-another-elephant-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in yet another elephant attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSANG, 21 Oct:<\/strong> In a tragic incident, two residents of Namsang village &#8211; Tanen Nocte (46) and Nanthok Hodong (45) &#8211; were killed by a herd of wild elephants near the village school here in Tirap district on Monday night, between 10 and 11 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the fourth human fatality caused by wild elephant attacks in the Deomali area this year and the fifth within the past year, highlighting a growing concern over increasing human-elephant conflicts in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, five lives, including that of former MLA Kapchen Rajkumar, have been lost due to elephant attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upon receiving the report, a team comprising the range forest officer, medical personnel, and police officials rushed to the site to assess the situation and carry out necessary formalities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Environment &amp; Forests Minister Wangki Lowangalso visited the site to take stock of the situation on Tuesday. ADC B Tawsik was also present at the site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The district administration has expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives and is coordinating with the Forest Department to ensure that relief is extended to the bereaved families. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMSANG, 21 Oct: In a tragic incident, two residents of Namsang village &#8211; Tanen Nocte (46) and Nanthok Hodong (45) &#8211; were killed by a herd of wild elephants near the village school here in Tirap district on Monday night, between 10 and 11 pm. This is the fourth human fatality caused by wild elephant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-272577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}