A rampaging tusker trampled crops and damaged three houses at lalgrah village near Jhumra in Bermo sub-division on Sunday evening. local villagers said they saw a herd of elephants coming towards their village. They raised alarm and fled their houses.
This is the fourth such attack by tuskers in a week .On last Sunday night, a tusker had killed a woman and injured two others at Jittungari village near Jhumra hill in Ramgrah district.
According to villagers, the herd of elephants entered the lalgrah village in the evening and broke walls and damaged the houses belonging to Balo Manjhi, Kartik Manjhi and Bodhan Manjhi.
Residents of lalgrah village have approached forest officer in Gomia to rein in elephant menace while the Forest Department shifted the blamed on lack of infrastructure.
Forest officer Anil Kumar Singh confirmed the incident and said compensation to be provided the affected people. According to him, the department is keeping strict vigil on wild elephants.
They were last seen in Dania forest area of Gomia block. Crackers and kerosene, searchlights, siren etc have been distributed among the villagers of nearby areas.
local police officials of Gomia police station said on Monday an elephant entered and attacked the village, destroying whatever came in its way.
Balo Manjhi, a victim of lalgrah village said the elephants were spotted in the village in the night after they damaged his house. The elephants also uprooted trees and ate up grains.