Tribal students had a miraculous escape when a wild elephant rescued a calf that had inadvertently entered their hostel room in Odisha’s Balasore district. Students of the Government High School, Kabataghati, still shiver as they recall what unfolded in the early hours of Thursday.
The school management was alerted to a herd of elephants roaming near the residential school, which is situated close to a forest, on Wednesday. “We remained vigilant till late in the night in order to alert boarders if elephants approached the school premises. By midnight, when we did not see any wild elephant, we went to sleep. However, wild elephants entered the school premises in the early hours of Thursday,” Chakradhar Das, Headmaster, said.
Though the school was set up about 65 years ago, it does not have a proper boundary wall.
