Wild elephants trample man to death in Jharkhand
December 3rd, 2010 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANSRanchi, Dec 3 (IANS) A herd of wild elephants trampled a man to death in Jharkhand’s Giridih district Friday, police said.
The elephants raided a village of Giridih district, about 170 km from here, destroyed the standing crops and trampled the man.
Angry over the incident, the villagers blocked the Giridih-Dumri national highway for over three hours and demanded compensation for the family of the killed man.
Over 750 people have been trampled to death in the last eight years in the state.
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