--Villagers demand compensation
to injureds’ family
BRAHMAPUR: In an unfortunate
incident, a marauding elephant of a herd trampled three persons on the wee
hours of Monday when they were fast asleep in their hut near Raghunathpur village
of Rambha forest area under Khallikote
forest range in Ganjam district. One among the three was critically injured and
admitted in the MKCG Medical
College and Hospital here.
They were identified as Gaura
Pradhan (62), Biswambar Pallai (56) and Rohit Palai (22) of Podagada village
under Rambha police station in the district. On the day of the incident, a herd
of five elephants came to the paddy harvesting yard in search of eating the
paddy stocks.
When the wild jumbos entered to
the yard, the three were taking rest in their hut near the harvesting yard.
During their entry to the yard, the pachyderms crushed the three. Two of them
escaped with a little injury, while the elderly man Pradhan trapped into the
trouble. A tusker crushed Pradhan’s leg while passing the hut.
They were rushed to the MKCG
Medical College Hospital
here and admitted in the new surgery ward of the hospital. “The condition is
critical, but the patient is out of danger. Operation is needed to set his crushed
leg,” said orthopedic surgeon Dr Bijay Sarangi of the hospital.
Meanwhile, the villagers of
Podagada, Raghunathpur and nearby areas were all prepared to block the National
Highway demanding compensation to the families of
the injured, necessary treatment and driving away the wild animals from the
human habitat. Local MLA Adikanda Sethy rushed to the village and assured that
they would take appropriate steps to write the district administration to
declare compensation for the injured persons’ family. Brahmapur DFO SS Mishra
visited the injured persons in the hospital and assured that the injured persons
would get free treatment.
It may be noted that the wild
elephants are on the rampage in the Palur area during last two months. Hundreds
of acres standing crops were damaged due to the increasing jumbo movement in
these areas of the Ganjam block.
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