Dumka: A mid afternoon bunch was sentenced to death by an elephant at Maldiha village at Jamtara district Sunday if they were outside to attend nature’s telephone.
The episode happened under Fatehpur police channel.
The deceased had been identified as Jiyalal Pawariya (52) along with his spouse Sonamani Tudu.
The episode sparked protests by local villagers that gheraoed girl stove officer Pratima Kumari for many hours in the daytime.
Afterwards, district police pacified the horse with a promise to push the elephant away into a safer location.
Resources said it had been the identical elephant that got separated from the own herd couple of months back and is drifting across various districts of Santhal Pargana, killing at least 11 men from the current times.
A month before, exactly the identical elephant had wreak havoc in adjacent Dumka town.
Paradoxically, forest officials are still attribute human misadventures, such as pelting stones and carrying selfies, are the factors for casualties without requiring concrete steps to maintain jumbos from human inhabitants.
“The dependants of the deceased few were awarded an interim relief of Rs 10,000 and could be compensated by the forest department following completion of the expected obligations,” block development officer of Fatehpur Mukesh Kumar Bouri stated.
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