Tension prevailed in front of the Chhendipada Forest Range office in Angul district when angry locals on Saturday staged a protest over the death of a 13-year-old boy by a wild elephant on Friday.
Demanding compensation to the boy’s family, over a hundred people, including family members of the deceased, sat on a dharna from 9 am.
Srikant, son of one Subhakant Rout, was going towards a nullah with his five friends to defecate when the elephant attacked them. Srikant, a Class-IX student, and one of his friends, Chandan, suffered critical injuries in the attack and were admitted to a hospital at Kaniha.
Later, Srikant was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital here while Chandan was shifted to a private hospital in Bhubaneswar.
Later, Srikant died while being further shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack.