An elephant was found dead near a sugarcane field in Khayarbari in ward 1 of Bahradashi Rural Municipality in Jhapa district on Thursday.

 According to the District Forest Office of Jhapa, farmers have installed electric fences around their sugarcane fields to protect them from elephants.

It is suspected that the elephant might have died of electrocution. 

This takes the total deaths of elephants that died of electrocution in Jhapa district this fiscal year to three. Meanwhile, six people have died in elephant attacks in the district this fiscal year.