A rampaging tusker trampled crops and damaged more than two dozen houses at Nawadih and Gomia blocks in Bokaro district last one week. This is the last such attack by a group of tuskers here on Saturday early morning at tribal village Dhaya in Nawadih block.
During their stayed in the village, the elephant damaged three houses and ate up crops in the field. later it went inside the nearby forest. Sources said that over thousand villages of Gomia and Nawadih block of Bokaro district have passing sleepless nights for last 15 days in fear of tusker attack.
A herd of 10 elephants that are moving around in the nearby forest region of both of the blocks, local have to stay awake in the night to protect their paddy and houses.
According to local villagers of Manpur village of Nawadih block, on Friday night a group of 18 tuskers which entered into the Manpur village in the Nawadih block destroyed vegitables and onions and ate away foodgrain stocked in houses of the villagers. The tusker damaged about eight mud houses by demolishing portions of walls and doors after entering in the village.
Meanwhile local Dumari MlA, Jagarnath Mahto and BDO, Inder Kumar, who rushed to the village just after knowing the news of attack and said that forest department would conduct a survey to ascertain the damage caused to property in the village adding that the maximum possible compensation would be given to the effected persons .
The villagers were also demanding that the elephant should be declared mad and killed. The villagers said that a group of elephants are moving in the area adding that its group had shunned some elephant.
However forest department officers said that they would try to keep the elephant on the the check by taking several measures. Similarly, a groups of tusker attacked on last week at Banchatra village in Gomia block and damaged more than 50 mud house of ganju families and trampling everything that came their way, then headed for their fields and completely ravaging the crops then proceeded for near by village.