Overview
- The death toll over the past week rose to 16 after six people, including four from one family, were killed late Tuesday in West Singhbhum’s Noamundi block.
- On Monday night in Goilkera, a man and two of his children were trampled in their hut and a third child was critically injured and sent to Rourkela for treatment.
- Forest officials attribute the attacks to a single fast-moving tusker believed to be separated from its herd and possibly in musth.
- Quick Response Teams and drone surveillance are in use, with expert units from West Bengal and Gujarat on the ground and assistance sought from Odisha and Vantara; tracking is complicated by fog, dense forests and reported IED threats.
- South Eastern Railway canceled six pairs of trains in the Chakradharpur division as a precaution, and officials say immediate relief has been paid with compensation processes underway.