Elephant calf found lying dead in Porahat forest division
Jamshedpur, Jan 6: A wild tusker trampled a seven-year-old girl to death under Chaibasa forest division in the same district past midnight. The incident of elephant trampling death took place at Masabila village under Jayantgarh panchayat in Jagannathpur thana area under Chaibasa forest division.
While villagers were sleeping, a lone tusker entered into Sona Gui’s house at Masabila village by breaking open his house. At the time, Sona Gui and his wife were sleeping along with their four children. On hearing the commotion, the couple scurried for cover at the sight of a tusker at home. As they managed to escape with three of their children, the tusker caught hold one of the children, seven-year-old girl Nabisa Gui, by its trunk and trampled her to death.
Divisional forest officer, Chaibasa, Sachin Kumar confirmed about the death of a seven-year-old girl at Jagannathpur in the West Singhbhum district. ” As per our probe it was a lone tusker and had parted ways with a herd of migratory elephants before straying into the human habitat. We will pay Rs 4 lakh as compensation to the bereaved family, a part of which has already been paid today,” said Kumar.
On the other hand an elephant calf was found lying dead under mysterious circumstance in Porahat forest division in West Singhbhum. A three-year-old elephant calf was found lying dead at Rundhi village under Ananadpur thana area in Porahat forest division in West Singhbhum. Though the elephant calf had died three days ago, the carass of it was discovered today only, leading the forest department to conduct a post-mortem.
DFO, Porahat division, Shiv Kumar Prasad said that in the beginning they suspected that the calf might have sustained a fatal injury inflicted by the villagers. But in the post-mortem nothing it was not clear.
