VISHVENDU JAIPURIAR
Hazaribag, Feb 10: The elephant carnage continued in Hazaribag on Thursday as the 10-year-old tusker injured a woman in Chepakala village in Barkagaon by damaging her house, said sources.
The elephant got separated on Wednesday from its herd killing three in Hazaribag. Division officer(west) Saba Alam Ansari confirmed the elephant’s presence in the Jugra forest and that the animal is now away from town.
Notably, the woman was cooking food when the elephant damaged her house. She was lucky to survive but ended up with a fractured leg.
According to sources, a team was called from Barkagaon which chased the animal from Kusumbha of Katkamdag to the Jugra forest in Barakagaon injuring a woman.
They added it is a dense forest and chances of returning back to town is impossible.
Moreover, the forest department sent a report to higher officials saying that the elephants entered the village from the Harangunj side near Mission road, causing damage to the boundary wall of St Elizabeth girls’ school during which she sustained injuries in the leg.
Even the forest department had sent a report to higher-ups including that the elephants entered here from the Harangunj side near Mission road, causing damage to the boundary wall of St.Elizabeth girls’ school during which he sustained injuries in the leg.
According to sources, it was said that the elephant was seen in the densely populated Bara Bazar mohalla in midtown. In Bara Bazar, the police made an announcement regarding the wandering animals in the town.
These announcements made people shut down their shops on the main road leaving the entire town to seem like an abandoned place by 10 PM.
A senior forest department official said they are in Jugra risking their lives and trying to chase away the tusker. He also added that rumours are flying high and that the police did is totally wrong.
