Stray bull kills two, injures many on Jamshedpur streets

JAMSHEDPUR: A stray bull gored two persons to death near the wholesale vegetable market in Sakchi area on Friday at around 5.30am. The animal also injured several others in the area.
As eyewitnesses said businessman Ashok Agarwal and Raj Kishore, both residents of nearby area at Penar Road, were on their way to purchase milk early Friday morning when the stray bull attacked them.
It dragged them for several meters as per the CCTV cameras footage available from that area. The two middle-aged persons were shifted to the nearby MGMMCH, where the doctors declared them brought dead. The over two dozen passersby tried to flee and sustained injuries in the process.
SDO Piyush Kumar Sinha rushed to the area and summoned teams from the Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee and the Tata Zoological Park to capture the animal. It took almost four hours to tranquillise the bull and shift it to the ‘Goushala’ at Jugsalai.
People of the area complained that incidents of stray animal attacks are not new in Jamshedpur, but the administration takes no action to remove the cows and bulls from the road, mostly spotted in busy market areas.
In the past, septuagenarian Anupam Das of Sonari was attacked by a stray bull near his residence when he was out for a walk. Das was severely injured in the attack and had to undergo a major operation and long hospitalisation before he would get back to his normal life. Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Vijay Anand Moonka said the administration was doing nothing to remove the animals found loitering on many roads of the Steel City.