Frequent elephant incursions have turned life in parts of West Karbi Anglong district into a nightly struggle for survival. Villages under Kheroni Police Station — including Jiribasa, Hawaipur, Belbari, Mailoo, Dhikreng, Kheroni Nepali Basti, Guhagaon, Majbasti and Lambapathar — are facing regular raids by wild elephant herds that destroy crops and property before moving on towards neighbouring Hojai district.

Farmers say the herds, which once appeared occasionally, now arrive almost every evening and early morning. “We can’t predict where they’ll come next,” said a farmer from Hawaipur whose paddy field was flattened overnight. “We light fires and beat drums, but they don’t stop.”

The elephants have destroyed paddy, vegetables and sugarcane across large stretches of farmland, threatenin

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