Sleepless nights for villagers; jumbos run amok

Times of India
30 September 2008


RAIPUR: About 850 residents of a Chhattisgarh village have not slept for the past one week as a group of 14 wild tuskers, having a record of killing people, have settled in the village and destroyed standing paddy crops.

"About 850 persons of Raigarh district's Bhaisgarhi village have been spending sleepless nights since last Tuesday Sep 23 as a group of 14 wild elephants are roaming in the area," officials at the forest department said.

They said the tuskers have sneaked into the village, some 300 km north of Raipur, from Korba district forests via the Dharmjaigarh forested belt.

"Since wild elephants have a track record of killing people during night in Raigarh, Korba, Jashpur, Korea and Surguja districts in the past five years, the poor residents of the forested Bhaisgarhi village have been literally kept under house arrest," the officials added.

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