An elephant calf chased by villagers died after its legs got stuck in the mud in a West Bengal village.
A group of villagers was chasing a herd of elephants with crackers and bamboo sticks Wednesday night when the incident occurred at Birpara in Dooars, about 700 km from here.
The calf, hardly one-and-a-half years old, could not flee and fell in the mud. The herd struggled throughout the night to pull it up from the ground, but with no success, officials said.
'We saw the jumbos trying to pull up the injured calf from the ground, but they failed again and again. Early on Thursday, when the elephants realised that the calf had died, they gradually trudged away,' said Birpur Mangal Munda, a local villager.
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