As many as six persons, including a nine-month-old baby, on Sunday sustained injuries as a wild boar attacked them at Jamboo village near the Jamboo protected forest fringe area, informed Mahakalpada Forest Ranger Bijay Kumar Parida.
The injured persons were identified as Malika Mirja (15), Tapan Mandal (32), Gurupad Kanda (24), laxman Patra (33), Bishnupriya Mandal (65) and Sanju Mandal, a baby. Though were undergoing treatment in Mahakalapada CHC, said Parida.
Earlier, a septuagenarian person of Suniti village was injured in a wild boar attack on September 28.
locals have demanded that boundary walls or high fences be erected around the Jamboo protected forest to protect them from further wild boars’ attack.