20 Jan 2020



Bhubaneswar: On the morning of January 21, an elderly man was trampled to death by an elephant in the Digapahandi range of Ganjam district of Odisha when he was guarding his harvested paddy. A day before, another man was trampled to death by elephants when they entered a village in the Rajgangpur Range of Sundargarh district. On January 19, a man was trampled to death in Sukinda range of Jajpur district as a tusker tried to break into his house. A day before that, two elderly men were killed in the Tangi range of Khurda district when they had come out of their homes early in the morning.

With the latest death, the number of humans killed since April 2019 reached 100 while 102 others were injured, some of them critically in the 177 elephant-man encounter incidents recorded in the state..

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