An elephant trampled a woman to death at Bajrakot village under the Kaniha Forest Range in Angul district on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Nayanai Sahu of the village.
The incident took place when she was heading towards a bus-stop near the village with her daughter to board a Bhubaneswar-bound bus.
The tusker attacked the mother-daughter duo on the road. While the daughter of Nayani managed to flee from the spot, the elephant crushed the woman to death.
Forest officials, on being informed, reached the village and initiated an investigation.
Notably, the very elephant had trampled one Naba Kishore Sethy of nearby Olanda village to death.