Elephant of Betla National Park trampled a 30 year old woman Malita Devi to death at village Kuchila which is in close contiguity of the park and comes under the Betla range of PTR.
Kumar Ashish deputy director North division of the tiger reserve Palamu has confirmed the casualty.
He said the bereaved family has been given right now 20,000 rupees as ex gratia relief.
The remaining 3,80,000 compensation money will be given after all formalities are completed. Umesh Dubey a forest guard said three women were in the jungles to bring back their cattle home last evening when one elephant with a calf attacked this woman as two other women with her scurried for life and saved themselves from the fury of the elephant.
Sources said the elephant seeing three women in the jungles might have felt a threat to her calf and so she charged the woman to death.