nTwo persons, including a woman, were killed by a wild elephant in Pratappur region of Surajpur district, forest officials informed on Saturday.
Interestingly, as per the forest officials the wild elephant, which trampled to death both victims, had a satellite radio collar on it.
The victims were identified as Rukmin Cherwa (50) resident of Sarhari village and Somnath Kodaku (45) of Gotagaon in Paratappur region, a forest official said.
Somnath was caught by the rouge tusker while he had gone to graze his cattle in the forest on Friday evening. After he did not return home the matter was reported to forest department and eventually his body was found in a forested patch near the village on Saturday morning, officials informed.
Rukmin Cherwa along with three others had gone to collect mushrooms when she was attacked and killed by the elephant. Two other who were injured in the attack have been admitted in the hospital and are currently out of danger, officials said.
Next of kin of the Victims were provided immediate relief of Rs 25,000 and the remaining compensation will be provided soon, officials added.