Tusker kills five villagers in Odisha

A suspected lone tusker trampled five persons to death in two different villages in Odisha’s Angul district late on Thursday night.

Of the five killed, three belonged to one family. They were sleeping on the verandah of their house in Sandha village in Angul district when the elephant attacked them. Forty-year-old Kalia Saar, who was a worker in a brick kiln, and his two-year-old and 12-year-old daughters died on the spot. Subsequently, the elephant attacked another woman in the same village and crushed her to death.

After one hour of the incident, an elderly person was trampled to death in Santhapada, a few km away from the first village. The victim was identified as 70-year-old Bramarabar Samal, who had stepped outside his home to relieve himself.