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An elephant herd has struck terror in the jungle on the Bankura-Purulia border, killing at least four persons in three months and forcing people of several villages to live on trees. The herd killed a 30-year-old cowherd in Bankura's Benachapra village and had critically injured another man in Purulia's Jhalda the previous night. Many villagers in a 30 sq km radius in Jhalda block - like Hensla, Kormadih, Kanakpur, Durgu, Ghoshra, Pusti and Keribera - are living in machans on trees, both to escape being attacked at home and to protect their ripening crops. The herd has come from the Dalma range in Jharkhand and is only following its traditional migration route. The man-animal conflict in this area has intensified over the last two decades, with over 200 people and 38 elephants being killed
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