A herd of elephants along with three calves are giving sleepless nights to the villagers in Tikhara panchayat of Bokaro,s Gomia block. Tuskers, which entered into the Chorgawa village and destroyed vegetables, ate food grain stocked in houses of the villagers.
The tusker also damaged about half a dozen houses by demolishing portions of walls and doors after entering in the village. Ram Sahay Munda a villager said that the tusker entered the village in the night on Saturday "We woke up in the night and found that the tusker was eating foodgrain stocked in house .later, we shouted and beat drums to shoo it off"
According to police, the herd entered the village on the Saturday night and first broke wall of houses belonging to Rasika Manjhi, Ram Sahay Munda, lal Chand Manjhi, Ruplal Hansda, Devi Munda, and Shibu Mahto.The elephant also gobbled up 200 kg of foodgrain of Ajay Mahto and Mahesh Mahto .The tusker invaded the village late last night and destroyed properties in its six hours stay in the area, a local villager said.
This is the fifth incident of this nature within a fortnight. Villagers are very angry with forests officials due to their apathy.