3,938 human lives lost to wild elephant attacks in 2014-2022: RTI

According to the RTI response, a copy of which is with indianexpress.com, Odisha recorded 719 human deaths, which is the highest among all states, owing to elephant attacks during this period.

Since 2014, 72 elephants have died due to electrocution in Karnataka, the RTI says. (Representational image/File)

2 min readBengaluruDec 28, 2022 06:12 PM IST First published on: Dec 28, 2022 at 06:12 PM IST

As many as 3,938 people have lost their lives in wild elephant attacks in India between 2014 and 2022, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), has said in response to an RTI filed by Kerala-based RTI campaigner K Govindan Nampoothiry.

According to the RTI response, a copy of which is with indianexpress.com, Odisha recorded 719 human deaths, which is the highest among all states, owing to elephant attacks during this period. In West Bengal, 643 people died due to wild elephant attacks. The other states which recorded a high number of human casualties were Jharkhand (640), Assam (561), Chhattisgarh (477), Tamil Nadu (371) and Karnataka (252).