As per reports, the unknown device had a red light and ‘Made-In-Korea’ inscribed on it. It was tied to a balloon.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Vice President, Baijayant Panda on Thursday visited Maa Vaishno Devi temple at Komna in Nuapada district.
All the injured were initially admitted to Khariar Hospital. Later, two of them were shifted to Nuapada District Headquarters Hospital as their condition deteriorated.
Jogendra had gone to Andhra Pradesh to work in a brick kiln. It was alleged that he was critically injured in the brutal attack by a labour contractor there.
Some of the farmers, who have stocked their paddy packets outside the procurement centre of Gandamer Primary Agriculture Cooperative Society (PACS) in Komna block, brought the allegations on Monday.
A team of experts comprising Debrigarth DFO and experts from Sambalpur Zoo reached the Nuapada forest office to study the behaviour of the leopard which is being treated inside a cage.
A day after the forest department caught a leopard which triggered panic by remaining atop a house at Kodapali under Dharam Bandha section on Saturday night, another leopard was sighted moving in the same area on Sunday.
As per Khariar Division DFO, the health of the leopard has deteriorated and it will soon be treated by a veterinary team.
A leopard, which is believed to have killed two persons and mauled another, was spotted atop a building at Kodapali of Dharma Bandha area under the Sadar range of Nuapada this evening.
Odisha Forest and Environment Minister Pradip Kumar Amat, chairing a conference of the DFOs, has directed the officials to work proactively and take measures to prevent man-animal conflicts in various forested pockets.
The Forest Department officials reached the village. On searching the area, the body of the victim was recovered from the nearby forest.
The district education officer (DEO) has suspended headmaster Rajendra Joshi and assistant teachers Kishore Sahu, Hingula Majhi and Lochan Behera for dereliction of duty.
The fear of tiger has been gripping the people of the villages near the sanctuary for a week now. But the forest department officials are allegedly not taking any measures to do away with the tiger fear.
On being informed about the incident, the forest department officials rushed to the spot and confirmed the death due to a tiger attack after examining the paw marks and circumstantial evidence.
Nuapada Sadar Tehsildar was suspended by the RDC in connection with the tragic incident.
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