Jumbo trouble

Wild jumbos have forced about 40 families of a forested tribal village in Sarguja region of Chhattisgarh to flee their place and take shelter in safer area. The wild elephants had gone on rampage, bringing down several mud-built houses besides destroying standing crop in Bakalo village of Sarguja district—about 450 km north of the state capital. The elephant herds are crossing over into northern parts of Chhattisgarh from neighbouring Jharkhand and Orissa. A major part of the region is reeling under the terror unleashed by the tuskers.