The villagers of lohardaga -latehar border area are living under the threat of wild elephants. A bunch of wild elephants have been making frightful invasions of the villages in the last few days.
As per information the animals have damaged eight houses in Kundo village of Kudu Thana and four houses in Goli village of Chandwa Thana. They have also spoiled the rice and maize fields. The villagers had to suffer losses running into several lakhs.
The bunch of the wild animals reached Kundo village spoiling the maize and rice fields of the village and damaged the house of Arjun lohra at first. After it the houses of Somra lohra, Mahaveer lohra and Mukesh lohra also came on their target. Under Chandwa Thana in Goli Village the houses of Ram Kishor Bhagat and Mangal Oraon were also destroyed.
The animals have come from Hazaribagh via Patratu. There are a dozen of small and big elephants in the group. The villagers of Goli, Pahan Toli, Hargarha, Rood, Kundo, Barha Toli are in terror and protested with a road jam for three hours at Kudu latehar main road. After the assurance of the forest department the jam was removed.