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A 25-year-old tusker died aft being deed by a bid astatine Agria level crossings nether Betnoti wood Range, wood officials said connected Sunday (November 2, 2025).
The incidental occurred astir 11.50 p.m. connected Saturday (November 1, 2025) erstwhile the Shalimaar-Baripada Express bid crossed the Jugal railway station.
A herd of elephants from Simlipal National Park was roaming successful the Betnoti wood scope for immoderate days.
Baripada Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Gobind Chandra Nayak visited the spot connected Sunday (November 2, 2025) and said the elephant’s carcass was sent for postmortem examination.
An probe is going connected successful this regard, helium added.
Railway officials were yet to contented immoderate connection successful this regard.
Locals claimed that the elephant could not tally distant from the way arsenic the level crossing gross was closed owed to introduction of a bid to the station.
