The Times of India additionally reports that the elephants also damaged a number of houses, including Murmu’s.
It stormed the funeral, knocked Murmu from her funeral pyre, trampled her body again, and tossed it away. Then, as her loved ones gathered to put her to rest, the wild elephant appeared again alongside a larger herd. Though Murmu was taken to a local hospital, she succumbed to her injuries and died. According to The Independent, 70-year-old Maya Murmu was drawing water in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district when the wild animal suddenly appeared and trampled her.
