The injured was admitted to North Bengal Medical College & Hospital with broken limbs.
So far four persons, including two women and a child, had earned the wrath of the tusker roaming alone in the nearby forest for the past one month, Mr Aden said.
Three of the injured had been undergoing treatment in the hospital.
Another report said a herd of 110 pachyderms was shuttling between India and Nepal causing concern to the local people of both sides as well as the Indian Forest Department and widllife officials.
Mr Aden said the group had been moving between India's Kadhma bustee under Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC) area during the day and across the Nepal border in the night for the past four weeks.
Mr Aden said efforts to keep the elephants inside the Indian territory had failed as the herd defied all sorts of warnings from the forest guards like bursting of crackers, beating of drums and even gunshots in the air.
He said they wanted the jumbos to stay inside the Indian forest to avoid man-animal conflict and also apprehending firing from the other side of the border on the animals.
The Nepalese government in a bid to drive out the elephants, had allegedly killed a jumbo last year.
Mr Aden said he got information that the herd killed a Nepalese citizen last night.
In another report from the Dooars, a nine-and-a-half-foot-long python was caught by the forest guards at Baikantapur region.
The reptile was found in a house at Ghazole Doba this morning.
The family members immediately called the forest guards, who caught the snake and rehabilitated it in the Baikantapur reserve.
Another report said a herd of 110 pachyderms was shuttling between India and Nepal causing concern to the local people of both sides as well as the Indian Forest Department and widllife officials.
Mr Aden said the group had been moving between India's Kadhma bustee under Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC) area during the day and across the Nepal border in the night for the past four weeks.
Mr Aden said efforts to keep the elephants inside the Indian territory had failed as the herd defied all sorts of warnings from the forest guards like bursting of crackers, beating of drums and even gunshots in the air.
He said they wanted the jumbos to stay inside the Indian forest to avoid man-animal conflict and also apprehending firing from the other side of the border on the animals.
The Nepalese government in a bid to drive out the elephants, had allegedly killed a jumbo last year.
Mr Aden said he got information that the herd killed a Nepalese citizen last night.
In another report from the Dooars, a nine-and-a-half-foot-long python was caught by the forest guards at Baikantapur region.
The reptile was found in a house at Ghazole Doba this morning.
The family members immediately called the forest guards, who caught the snake and rehabilitated it in the Baikantapur reserve.
--UNI
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