Traffic on National Highway-55 was disrupted for four hours on Friday as locals blocked the road by keeping the body of a man who was trampled by a tusker at Bali village under Athagarh subdivision.
The man, Gopal Sahoo, was trampled by the elephant on Thursday night. Villagers staged the road blockade near Bali demanding
compensation for the deceased’s family.
They withdrew agitation only after Athagarh DFO Arun kumar Swain reached the spot and assured to provide a job to Gopal’s son, provide ex-gratia of Rs 3 lakh and instantly handed over Rs 15,000 to the family for cremation of the body.
The DFO also assured that a solar fence would be extended from Oranda village to Kuspangi village and the tusker would tranquilised soon.
Notably, the tusker had trampled another man of Sasanka village on Wednesday night.