By Md Seraj Edited by: Kanchan Singh Updated: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:41 (IST) Wild elephants continue to roam in the West Bokaro OP area of ​​Ramgarh, where they have damaged several houses and killed four people. Angry villagers took to the streets to protest against the incident. Samvad Sutra, Ghato (Ramgarh). The menace of wild elephants has been going on for a month in the Best Bokaro OP area of ​​the Mandu block. Hundreds of houses have been demolished so far. The condition of farmers was weakened by trampling their crops and demolishing their houses. Remove advertisement Just read the news A herd of wild elephants of about seven created a commotion late on Tuesday evening in Sirmanala Tola located near Ara number 4 of West Bokaro OP area. During this, elephants broke the door of a house. 55-year-old Parvati Devi, her husband late, was sleeping in the house. Mahavir picked up Manjhi from the trunk and brought him out and beat him to death. In this sequence, 70-year-old neighbor Savitri Devi, husband of Late Lakhan Karmali, tried to run away from their house, but as soon as he came out of the house, the elephants grabbed him and beat him to death. He was picked up along with the bike and thrown on the road and crushed to death with his feet, while Amul Mahato, who was riding for duty on bike number four to an outsourcing company of CCL, was picked up along with his bike by a herd of elephants and thrown on the road and crushed with his feet and took his life. Meanwhile, by breaking the door of the house, Pappu Saav’s leg was broken. His wife was seriously injured, who is undergoing treatment in Ramgarh. After this the elephants killed Hriday Seth, Mithlesh, Mohd. Ghulam, Mohan Manjhi, Dawood Ansari, Ganesh Tudu, Noor Mohammad, Mohd. Asghar, Mohd. Zakir’s house was damaged. All the elephants went to the nearby drain. The herd of elephants was present there until late at night. Earlier on Tuesday evening, CCCL security personnel Amit Rajwar, who was going on a bike for duty, was attacked and killed by wild elephants. Villagers demonstrated and demanded compensation and security. Within eight hours, four people, including two women, were killed by a herd of elephants. In protest against the incident and demanding compensation and security, the villagers blocked road number four from 06:00 in the morning. Due to this, the coal transportation work of CCL and other coal mines came to a standstill. The villagers did not even allow the two-wheeler to pass. Forest department and police held discussions with the villagers around one o’clock. In this conversation, the Ranger provided Rs 25 thousand cash to the family members of the deceased. After ensuring payment of the remaining amount of Rs 3.75 lakh to the dependents of each deceased after completion of the paper process, compensation amount for house and crop and other facilities including proper treatment of the injured, the jam was removed from the road around 1 pm. Many forest workers of the forest department, including West Bokaro OP’s commanding officer, Deepak Prasad, were present at the spot. Due to panic, the shops of Ara Sarubeda Colony remained closed. Due to the fear of elephants being present near drain number four of the area, most of the shops of the Ara Sarubeda colony were closed from 12 noon. Even in CCL Colony people are hiding in their houses. People from other schools including DAV also took their children out and took them home. Sirens of forest department and police vehicles continued to sound throughout the night. From 10 o’clock on Tuesday evening, sirens from four forest departments and police vehicles kept ringing on the roads throughout the night. Sirens blared continuously from Ara number four fitter breaker to Tisco siding. Deepak Kumar, the head of West Bokaro OP, was also seen on the street with his team. There was silence on the street as soon as 8 o’clock at night. Elephant entered Sirmanala Tola during the day, created panic. There was an atmosphere of chaos near Ara number four turn and Sirmanala as a herd of elephants entered Sirmanala Tola even at 11 o’clock in the day. At that time, the ranger was investigating the damaged house with the villager. The jam was cleared as soon as the elephant entered. The whole hamlet became empty. People ran on the road to save their lives. The sirens of the forest department and police vehicles that reached the spot forced the elephants to retreat. Forest ranger, Bateshwar Paswan, reached the jam site around 10:00 am, where attempts were made to resolve the matter with the villagers. The Ranger said that currently Rs 25,000 will be paid to the relatives of the deceased. Later, after the paperwork is completed, Rs 4 lakh will be paid to the family members of the deceased. Apart from this, compensation will also be given to the family whose house was damaged. The ranger said that the villagers should not go to the forest for now. Try to stay home after the evening, we will work on taking some concrete measures. At the same time, the villagers did not listen to the ranger’s words and refused to remove the jam, saying that no concrete measures should be taken today regarding security, increasing the amount of compensation and giving work to the next of kin of the deceased.