Raigarh | Two elephants went on the rampage and trampled three individuals, including a three-year-old boy, to death at two places in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Wednesday.
A female elephant and her calf destroyed a few houses in Gosaidih village in Anglikala area on Tuesday night and trampled three-year-old Satyam Rawat to death. The two jumbos then strode to Mohanpur village and attacked Santara Bai Rathiya (46) and Purushottam Khadia (48), leading to their death, said Jitendra Upadhyay, Divisional Forest Officer of Dharamjaigarh.
Both incidents occurred in the Lailunga forest range under the Dharamjaigarh forest division.
He said forest department personnel rushed to the spots and shifted the bodies.
An immediate aid of Rs 25,000 has been provided to the kin of each of the deceased, the official said.
Teams of forest personnel are closely monitoring the movement of elephants and alerting locals.
Several incidents of human-elephant conflicts have been reported in the last ten years in the northern region of Chhattisgarh.
According to Forest Department officials, more than 320 people were killed in such incidents over the last five years.
Similar incidents have been reported in some districts of the central region in the last few years, particularly in Surguja, Raigarh, Korba, Surajpur and Balrampur.
