Tired of repairing houses over and again after raiding elephants leave them damaged, all residents of a small tribal village have fled home and taken shelter in another village in Odisha’s Keonjhar district.
The 11 households of Kaliapani village under Bansapal block have also lost their crops to marauding elephants. Though Kaliapani is equipped with concrete roads and solar power, villagers could not lead a normal life in the face of regular invasions by aggressive wild elephants. In the past one and a half years, all the villagers — one after another — have moved to the nearby Uppartangarpada village.
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