Forest guard who sustained burn injuries in Sakleshpur forest fire dies at Bengaluru hospital
Sakleshpur: A forest guard who had been admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru after he suffered burn injuries in a forest fire in the Western Ghat region of the taluk died on Saturday at the hospital.
The forest guard, Sundaresh, a resident of Theerthahalli, had sustained critical burn injuries during a fire incident in the forests of Moorkannu Gudda on Thursday afternoon. His colleagues from the Forest Department Manjunath, Thungesh, and Mahesh had also sustained injuries in the mishap.
The injured officials were taken to a local hospital for first aid before being admitted to the district hospital for further treatment. Sundaresh and Manjunath were shifted to a private hospital in Bengaluru looking at the extent of their injuries.
Sundaresh, however, failed to respond to the treatment and died at the Bengaluru hospital.
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Sleeping together in fear of elephant attack, 3 children die of snake bite in Jharkhand
Garwah (Jharkhand), Sep 6: Three children who were sleeping together in fear of elephant attacks, died of snakebite in a village in Jharkhand’s Garwah district, police said on Friday.
The incident happened in Chapkali village, under the jurisdiction of Chinia police station of the district, a police officer said.
Scared of elephant attacks, around 8 to 10 children of a family were sleeping on the floor of their tile home when the reptile, reportedly a Krait, sneaked into the house, situated in Nawanagar Tola, and bit the three on Thursday night, the police officer said.
Following the incident, the victims were taken to a sorcerer at around 1 am, where two of them died.The family members then took the third victim to a quack but she died on the way, the police officer said.
The deceased were identified as Pannalal Korwa (15), Kanchan Kumari (8), and Baby Kumari (9), the Officer-in-Charge of Chinia police station Neeraj Kumar said.
Meanwhile, the villagers are being forced to sleep in safe places owing to the prevailing elephant menace.
The pachyderms enter the human habitat in search of food.
Some villagers were compelled to sleep on the roof of school buildings or in groups at one place in the village, the locals claimed.
