Two Including a Minor Girl Killed By Wild Elephants in Separate Incidents

Bhubaneswar: Two persons including an eight-year-old girl were killed in two separate incidents of elephant attacks in Odisha. In the wee hours on Saturday, an eight-year-old girl was trampled to death by an elephant at Saralia Chitrasul village under the Soro block of Balasore district.

The ill-fated girl was asleep in her house when at around 2 am a herd of around eight elephants entered the courtyard of the house. One of the elephants trampled the minor girl. The family members rushed the seriously injured girl to the hospital in an ambulance, where she was declared dead.

In another incident, a person died when he was attacked by an elephant in Nayagarh district. The deceased was Satyabadi Behera of Natim village in Ranpur block. The incident occurred when Behera was going to work along with two other associates on Saturday morning.