Earth Changes

Peeved pachyderm: Elephant tramples 4 people to death in Assam, India

Devdiscourse
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:44 UTC

Four persons were trampled to death by a wild elephant at three nearby villages in West Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday, official sources said.

The elephant attacked the four persons - three women and a boy - when they were working in their sugarcane and paddy fields in villages under Kheroni area. The animal killed a woman and a 12-year-old boy at Bagidubi village, and two other women at Lomba Pathar and Jiribasa villages.

The elephant, suspected to have been separated from its herd, came out of the Kheroni forest a few days ago and wrecked havoc in the area destroying standing crops, the sources said.

Reader Comments

gdpetti · 2018-12-04T22:03:13Z

India.... the long lost civilization that only lingers but rarely on the mind these days... and this is yet another example of the bad leadership in that country... can anyone imagine this happening elsewhere? Even in other poor areas of the world this rarely happens, while it seems to happen every week in India. Some things have to be kept apart... not sure of the local area, but this is usually a 'village' issue, in which the people are too close to the animal areas... and the govt allows it.. most likely ignores the rural areas unless it's election time...

Here in the States, this issue shows up in rural areas in the West with 'villages' or homes too close to the forest or in the forest subject to high burn rates.... if you allow it, it will come. Simple.

Saiko · 2018-12-06T08:59:54Z

gdpetti Comparing India to USA is not a good idea. In both cases it's religion and values, but they are very different. In USA the bloodthirsty people don't value other lives, even protected specimen would be killed. In India every life is sacred, even animal - at least according to the tradition and main religion. So in India a guy killing animals would be weird or outcast, while in USA a guy trying to protect such animal would be weird.