Elephants checkmate Jharkhand's tribal hunters

New Kerala
May 1, 2007
Ranchi, May 1 : This year, Jharkhand elephants did what the forest officials could not do in the past - chase away tribals who came to hunt and kill wild animals in Dalma sanctuary.
To celebrate the ongoing 'Visu shikar' festival, 400 tribal people of the Dalma Buru Sendra Sammittee (DBSS) had gathered at the wildlife sanctuary for a spot of hunting and killing when a herd of elephants saw them and chased them away.
The hunters, however, claimed to have killed a few boars and deer to mark the festival, local reports said. "We killed three boars and two deer for our festival," said a tribal.

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