dehradun the frontline teams of western circle of uttarakhand forest department have been on the search for two wild elephants who have believed to have entered the surai forest range adjoining khatima in us nagar since tuesday night surai is not an elephant landscape and therefore the officials are on an alert mode trying to intensively comb the area to find out the pachyderms before any mishap the teams are also telling people not to confront the wild animals or panic if they see themlast year in july two elephants from nepal forests had drifted away from their usual pathway into uttarakhand and uttar pradesh forests they had killed five people at different locations after an intensive operation they were tranquilised and left in pilibhit forests the forest officials are saying that this year too in a similar fashion two jumbos have strayed into indiathere is also the concern that the two wild elephants from nepal who were left in the wilds of pilibhit last year in july and who we thought probably went back to nepal may be back however we cannot confirm that they are the same rogue jumbos as we are yet to see them said nitishmani tripathi dfo terai east western circle he added that the pugmarks of the elephants were first spotted in a farmhouse and its owners subsequently informed the forest officials about the pachydermsmost of the time wild animals cross through sharda sagar canal between india and nepal comfortably especially during monsoon they flow in the water current and reach the other side added tripathithe villagers in and around udham singh nagar are being counselled by the patrolling team to avoid elephanthuman conflict by not going out or trying to chase the elephants away as they are huge their pugmarks indicate they are huge elephants the best we can do is alert the locals said js suhag chief wildlife warden uttarakhand forest department