An elephant in jap India killed a 70-year-old girl, then returned to her funeral to trample on her carcass.

The incident occurred in Odisha state on Thursday, police mentioned.

Maya Murmu was at a tube nicely drawing water in Raipal village of Mayurbhanj district when the wild elephant appeared out of nowhere.

Authorities mentioned it had strayed from the Dalma wildlife sanctuary, practically 200km from Mayurbhanj.

After being trampled, Ms. Murmu was taken to hospital the place she died of her accidents, police officer Lopamudra Nayak informed the Press Belief of India information company.

Studies say that as relations gathered for the funeral and have been performing the final rites, the identical elephant appeared, lifted Ms. Murmu’s physique from the funeral pyre and stomped on it once more, as mourners appeared on in shock.

The household was solely capable of proceed with the ceremony after the elephant left. It’s unclear if the animal harmed anybody else current.

Conflicts between elephants and people are frequent in Odisha. Intense industrial exercise within the mineral-rich state has elevated human encroachment on the animals’ habitats, growing the probabilities of encounters between villagers and elephants.

A worrying pattern within the state has additionally been a rise within the variety of unnatural deaths of elephants. No less than 1,356 elephants have been killed in Odisha since 2000-01, in accordance with knowledge supplied by the state’s wildlife safety chief, the IANS information company reported.

No less than 42 elephant deaths have been recorded within the state in simply seven months, from April to October final yr.

Many different incidents of human-elephant battle have been reported in different elements of the nation.

In March this yr, a girl was killed in an assault by a wild elephant in a forest in Bilaspur district, within the central state of Chhattisgarh. Her eight-year-old grandson was injured whereas making an attempt to flee, police mentioned.

In Might, a 40-year-old girl was trampled to demise by an elephant exterior her house close to Gudalur, within the Nilgiris district of the southern state of Tamil Nadu.