{"id":50696,"date":"2026-07-05T08:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50696"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:39:33","slug":"mother-and-son-killed-in-elephant-attack-in-chitwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/mother-and-son-killed-in-elephant-attack-in-chitwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and son killed in elephant attack in Chitwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Chitwan, July 5:<\/strong> A tragic incident occurred in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-23 Belhatta, where a mother and her four-year-old son were killed in an elephant attack while they were sleeping at home.<br \/>\nAccording to police, the victims, 25-year-old Ashika Bote and her son Bharat, died instantly during the attack on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to deter the elephant, Ashika&#8217;s husband, Poorna, lit a fire, which inadvertently led to their mud house catching fire. Fortunately, the fire was extinguished with assistance from local residents and police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chitwan, July 5: A tragic incident occurred in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-23 Belhatta, where a mother and her four-year-old son were killed in an elephant attack while they were sleeping at home. According to police, the victims, 25-year-old Ashika Bote and her son Bharat, died instantly during the attack on Saturday night. In an attempt to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50698,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50696\/revisions\/50698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}