A herd of wild elephants has destroyed 13 houses belonging to Scheduled Tribes and damaged grains and properties of over `2 lakh during their three-day stay at villages Ghaghari and Jhumka under Sagama block of the district.
Those houses were damaged by the tuskers belonged to Baleshwer Yadav, Surendra Vishwakarma, Sumatiya Kuar wife of late Raju Vishwakarma, Samani Devi wife of Mangaru Korwa, Devnarayan Korwa, Sarvjit Bhuiyan, Hira Baitha, Gambhira Baitha, Surendra Baitha, Rajeshwer Prasad Yadav, Mundrika Yadav, Dwarika Baitha and Sita Singh.
Residents of several villages have started migrating from the area out of fear. Vice-president of District Board Rekha Chaubey visited the site on Sunday. She directed to the dealer of the village to available 30 kg grain to the victims.
The natives of Sagama block in the district are living in constant fear after the herd of wild elephants came reportedly from neighbouring Chhattisgarh played havoc since Tuesday night. The
villagers had sleepless nights to ward off the unwanted disaster.Presently, the locations of wild animals was found in the bordering area of Chhattishgarh. Crossing the UP-Chhattisgarh border the elephants entered in Ghaghari, Jhumka and others village.
According to locals, furious elephants around 4 to 6 in number started destroying the houses and damaged the food grains put in the houses. The scared villagers saved their lives by fleeing from the scene, and spent whole night away from the village at a safe distance.
When contacted from DC Neha Arora said that she directed to the DFO North for preparing records of victim and available them relief.