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  • SSI dies of COVID-19
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  • Teenager dies of Covid, kidney complicacies, toll reaches eight
  • V-P advises other nations to refrain from commenting on India’s internal matters
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  • Ramadoss calls for safe disposal of 740 tons ammonium nitrate from a warehouse near Chenai Port
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  • RBI keeps key rates unchanged
  • India's Covid tally nears 20 lakh-mark with 13 lakh recoveries registered
  • Restrictions eased, business other activities remain crippled in Kashmir
  • Why is PM lying, asks Rahul after Defence Ministry admits Chinese transgression in Indian territory
  • Odisha covid tally surpasses 40K with an all time record 1699 new cases, Toll mounts to 235
  • Spitting on doctor at Covid centre: Tripura HC cancels bail
StatesPosted at: Apr 19 2018 6:32PM


Elephant kills cyclist in Dooars of Bengal, Leopard evacuated safely

Siliguri, Apr 19 (UNI) In a fresh man-animal conflict a tusker todaytrampled to death a man while he was cycling on the highway to hisworking place in the Dooars of West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, forest
ranger Dulal Ghosh said.
The killing of man by the adult elephant happened in broad day light around Targhera jungle checkpost.
Eyewitnesses said the pachyderm came out of the forest on the state highway and picked up the panicked cyclist, who stopped paddling before the jumbo, from its trunk and hurled on metal road and stumped on the body.
The deceased, identified as Priyanath Biswas (40), a carpenter by profession.
The body was sent for postmortem.
The ranger said the bereaved family would be compensated accordingly. Elsewhere, a live leopard was today got into a trap inside the Simulbari tea estate.
The leopard was also evacuated safely into a jungle.
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