India: Elephant Kills Woman Then Attacks Her Funeral

I wish God would send large beasts to punish people more often.

New York Post:

A 70-year-old woman in India was trampled to death by an elephant — and her corpse was then bizarrely attacked by the same beast at her funeral, according to a report.

Police said Maya Murmu had been fetching water from a well in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Thursday when an elephant came barreling toward her, according to the Print India. The tusked pachyderm had apparently escaped from the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, which is located in a neighboring state.

The elephant trampled the woman, who ultimately died of her injuries at a nearby hospital, police told the outlet Saturday.

Murmu’s family was then performing her last rites before lighting a funeral pyre when the elephant allegedly returned and grabbed her body.

I can’t say why this is so funny to me.

Killing a random woman and then attacking her funeral is like something a black person would do.

But I tend to assume this woman was involved in witchcraft, and the elephant was sent as God’s vengeance.