BARIPADA: Wild elephants trampled two of a family to death after entering into Piansi village of Mayurbhanj district on Sunday night. The marauding pachyderms damaged the house and killed the elderly woman and her one and a half year old granddaughter when they were fast asleep in their thatched house.
According to the forest officials,
more than hundred of elephants from Jharkhand have entered into Mayurbhanj district
through jungle areas of West Bengal border. The jumbos have
been wreaking havoc in the village areas of Rasagovindpur range for last few
days, the officials added.
The elephant herds damaged
standing paddy crops in some areas of the district which has created terror
among the farmers as they were all set to harvest their ripen paddy. The paddy
fields of the villages including Kaduamunda, Krushnachandrapur and Raghunathpur
were badly affected due to the jumbo menace.
After destroying paddy crops and
killing two persons in Piansi village, the jumbos have started moving towards
Kuldiha forest range of Baleswar district. The forest officials along with the
locals were trying to drive away the wild animals, but they managed to stay in
the forest at the day time and come out to eat crops in the night time, locals
said.
In Kendujhar district also, a
herd of wild jumbos have destroyed standing crops. “Most of the people of the area
do not come to their paddy fields fearing attack from the elephants’ side which
delayed the crop harvesting here,” said a villager.
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