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Borkataky said that elephants have started coming to Tezpur town, about 80km from the encroached reserved forest near Nameri.“Elephants being an intelligent animal are scared to enter these encroached villages because of the deadly electric fences. When they were about to cross the river, Deka came in contact with live electric fence and died on stop.Villages that have come up on the encroached reserved forest on the buffer of Nameri have been using the deadly tactics of high voltage electric fence to keep wild elephant herds at bay without any approval of the forest department. It was 7pm, Deka along with another guard was passing through Daimguri village, a settlement that came up on an encroached area of Balipara reserved forest on the buffer zone of Nameri, to reach their camp. That elephants are entering the Tezpur town itself says the magnitude of conflict has intensified,” Borkataky said. As a result they are coming now to other human settled areas which were free of conflict in the past..