A woman and her daughter were killed when a wild elephant fatally attacked them in Bardia on Monday night.
The animal that had barged into a human settlement near Bardia National Park attacked Chanda BK, 37, and her three-year-old daughter Dipika BK of Geruwa Rural Municipality at around 10 pm.
The critically injured mother daughter duo was rushed to Nepalgunj Teaching Hospital, Kohalpur in Banke district where they breathed their last during treatment.
The incident had taken place while the two were sleeping in the courtyard of their house to escape the heat inside.
Residents are being told to be on the alert after a suspected fatal bear attack near Water Valley, west of Cremona, on Tuesday.
It's the second deadly bear encounter in the region this month.
At about 7 p.m. Tuesday night, Alberta Fish and Wildlife personnel were called to a private property southwest of the hamlet for a report of a fatal bear attack.
"The individual had gone for a walk on their property and was found deceased on one of their trails," Alberta Justice and Solicitor General spokeswoman Ina Lucila said in a statement.
"Officers are still determining the identity of the bear, but a grizzly bear and a cub were seen in the vicinity of the incident. The sow was exhibiting aggressive behaviour."
Rural Australia has taken a battering over the last few years, with drought, fires and floods - and many farms in New South Wales are now having to deal with a plague of mice.
These three farmers spoke about living through the worst mouse infestation they've ever seen.
A humpback whale was found dead on Wednesday on a beach along the Mediterranean in southern France, in what experts said was a rare incident.
"As soon as we arrived, it was already dead," said Elodie Sene, a caretaker at an aquarium in the town of Grau-du-Roi.
"I've never seen anything like this, it's the first time I see this in the Mediterranean," she added.
The seven-meter-long (23-foot)animal was evacuated from the beach at Carnon, near the seaside town of La Grande-Motte, and was to undergo an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Experts have confirmed two British killer whales which appeared off Cornwall were the most southerly ever recorded in 50 years of observations.
Nine days later the pair were seen back in the Hebrides.
Then, the following day, they were spotted by a research vessel in the waters off Lochboisdale, Scotland.
Multiple organisations confirmed this is the first sighting of this famous pair of killer whales off England and the most southerly point they have ever been recorded in five decades.
Movements of this small and unique group of killer whales have been tracked, over time, by The Sea Watch Foundation, Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust and the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group.
One of the killer whales is known as John Coe - and has a deep nick near the base of his dorsal fin and fluke.
A 10-month-old girl died Tuesday after being attacked by two family dogs, the Johnston County Sheriff's Office said.
Capt. Jeff Caldwell said in a news release that deputies responding to a report of an animal attack in Willow Spring found Scott Winberry trying to help his injured daughter, Malia Scott Winberry. Deputies learned that family pets had violently attacked Malia and they joined her father's efforts to help until EMS units took over care.
The girl was soon pronounced dead, officials said. Investigators quickly determined that the incident was an accident.
News outlets report that Sheriff Steve Bizzell said the attack happened after the father stepped out of the house to speak with a neighbor.
The father is a law enforcement officer in Wake County and the mother worked for Johnston County's EMS, he said.
Johnston County Animal Control has seized the two Rottweilers involved in the attack.
Two zookeepers have been killed by tigers this week at separate zoos in China, according to state media.
In the first incident Sunday, a 55-year-old keeper surnamed Yang was mauled to death by a tiger as he cleaned its cage at a zoo in eastern Anhui province, state media reported.
Yang had been a tiger handler at the Zhanggongshan Zoo in Bengbu for nearly two decades, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported.
On Tuesday, police shot two tigers dead after they mauled a zookeeper during feeding time and escaped their enclosure at a park in central Henan province. The keeper, surnamed Jia, was hospitalized and later died of his injuries.
Palash Karmakar, a zoo keeper has been attacked and killed by a Royal Bengal tigress in Itanagar Zoo on Tuesday afternoon. Poulash Karmakar is a native of Dhekiajuli in Assam's Lakhimpur district.
35-year old Palash on Tuesday when entered Tiger's enclosure for cleaning , Tigeress attacked him, a report said. Palash had gone inside to clean the water body.
The name of the tigress that mauled Karmakar is Chippi and she is about 8 years old.
Preliminary investigation indicated that the door of the Royal Bengal tiger's cage was not closed after feeding allowing it to come out and pounce upon the 35-year-old Karmakar, killing him instantly.
A case of unnatural death has been registered at Itanagar police station.
A farmer in southern China lost 42 cows when he and his cattle herd were struck by lightning during a thunderstorm on Monday.
Officials in the town of Sanjia, which is in Dongfang in the Chinese province of Hainan, said the victim was knocked unconscious by the bolt of electricity, but he was not in any life-threatening condition.
Footage circulating on Chinese social media sites showed villagers and local government officials surveying the farm following the freak weather incident. The lifeless brown cattle can be seen scattered across the field while survivors remain cooped up nearby.
A woman was mauled to death by a stray dog in a suburb near Seoul on Saturday afternoon.
The 59-year-old died of excessive bleeding a few hours after the dog bit her neck.
The dog's attack was filmed by a closed circuit camera set up in the neighborhood, and police later captured the dog, which looked like a hybrid of Pungsan Dog and Samoyed.
This is not an isolated incident at a time when many pedigreed dogs end up on city streets and turn into strays, baring fangs and attacking people and livestock alike.
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