{"id":57131,"date":"2026-10-20T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57131"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:51:47","slug":"one-killed-another-injured-in-elephant-attack-in-jhapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/one-killed-another-injured-in-elephant-attack-in-jhapa\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed, another injured in elephant attack in Jhapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Jhapa, Oct 20:<\/strong> A 70-year-old woman was killed and an elderly man injured in an elephant attack at Janata Chowk in Bahradashi Rural Municipality-2, Jhapa, on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased has been identified as Lajuma Khatun, a resident of the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ranjan Awal, Information Officer at the District Police Office, Jhapa, Khatun was attacked by two elephants near the Biring River while she was out on her morning walk.<\/p>\n<p>She sustained serious injuries and died on the way to the Provincial Hospital in Bhadrapur. Her body has been kept at the hospital for a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Jhakku Rajbanshi, 73, who was walking with Khatun, was also seriously injured in the attack.<br \/>\nHe is receiving treatment at a local hospital in Birtamod, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jhapa, Oct 20: A 70-year-old woman was killed and an elderly man injured in an elephant attack at Janata Chowk in Bahradashi Rural Municipality-2, Jhapa, on Monday morning. The deceased has been identified as Lajuma Khatun, a resident of the area. According to Ranjan Awal, Information Officer at the District Police Office, Jhapa, Khatun was [&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-57131","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\/57131"}],"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=57131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57133,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57131\/revisions\/57133"}],"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=57131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}