Two individuals had been killed and one critically injured when a sloth bear attacked them whereas they had been working in a cashew backyard at Anakapalli village in Srikakulam district on Saturday, a district forest officer mentioned.
Srikakulam DFO Nisha Kumari mentioned the assault occurred in Kasibugga vary of Srikakulam Forest Division.
“In an unlucky incident of an assault by a sloth bear in a cashew backyard in Anakapalli village of Vajrapukotturu mandal in Kasibugga Vary of Srikakulam Forest division, two individuals died and one individual was critically injured,” Kumari instructed PTI.
She famous that the injured individual had been shifted to the federal government hospital in Palasa for remedy.
The DFO mentioned compensation shall be paid to the kin of the deceased and injured individual, together with medical bills as per norms.
In keeping with Kumari, the Forest Division is ‘frequently’ taking steps to keep away from human-animal battle by creating consciousness among the many villagers, together with ‘alerting’ them to keep away from areas the place sloth bear motion is reported.
Additional, she mentioned {that a} devoted staff underneath sub-divisional forest officer, Tekkali, is being constituted to repeatedly monitor sloth bear motion.
Kumari mentioned mass consciousness programmes shall be intensified until cashew assortment season ends.
On February 1, 4 individuals had been injured in a bear assault at Vajrapukotturu village. A feminine bear with cubs attacked them and later vanished right into a cashew orchard.