A 50-year-old person died and six others sustained injuries, including three of them critically, in wild boar attack at Jhinkadi (Hatabanapur) village in Basapur panchayat under the Kendrapada Sadar police limits on Friday. The deceased person was identified as Kunja Bihari Das (50) while the injured ones were identified as Baisnab Das (45), Soumyajit Mohanty(26), his father Pramod Mohanty(48), Sadhu Charan Das, Tilottama Das (62) and her husband Gandharb Das (65).
According sources, the wild boar first attacked Kunja Bihari while he had gone for open defecation in a nearby farm land. Critically injured, Kunja Bihari died on way to hospital. later, the wild boar entered into the village and attacked the rest six. Getting information, the forest personnel from Kendrapada range rushed to the spot to nab the boar but in vain.