Angry elephant crushed the farmer to death, people blocked the highway demanding compensation:

News India Live, Digital Desk: An atmosphere of mourning and panic spread in a village near Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, when a wild elephant that had strayed from the forest attacked a farmer working in the field and brutally crushed him to death. After this tragic incident, angry villagers and relatives of the deceased blocked the National Highway demanding compensation and government jobs.

What is the whole incident?

This heart-wrenching incident took place in Choraya village of Chanho block of Ranchi district. The deceased farmer has been identified as 50-year-old Budhram Oraon. According to the information, Budhram had gone to work in his field early in the morning. Meanwhile, an elephant suddenly came into his field from the nearby forest.

Before Budhram could understand anything or run away from there, the elephant attacked him. The elephant picked up Budhram with its trunk and threw him and then crushed him badly with his feet, due to which he died painfully on the spot.

Angry people blocked the road after the incident

As soon as the news of the farmer’s death spread in the village, there was chaos there. A large number of villagers and family members of the deceased gathered at the spot. Angered by the incident, people kept the dead body on the nearby Ranchi-Daltonganj National Highway-75 and blocked the road.

The demands of the people blocking the road were:

• Appropriate compensation should be given immediately to the family of the deceased.
• One member of the family should be given a permanent government job.
• Strong security arrangements should be made in the village and surrounding areas against elephant terror.

Traffic remained disrupted for hours

Due to jam on the highway, long queues of vehicles formed on both sides of the road and traffic remained disrupted for hours. On receiving the information, local police and forest department officials reached the spot. He tried hard to placate the angry people.

People removed the jam only after a long discussion and assurance of all possible help from the administration. The police have taken possession of the body and sent it for post-mortem and the forest department team has started efforts to drive the elephant back towards the forest. After this incident, there is an atmosphere of fear regarding elephants in the entire area.