The Telegraph
May 22, 2008
Purulia, May 21: Six people, including a two-and-half-year-old boy, were trampled to death by a tusker in Purulia today.
The elephant wandered into Beladi village in the Joypur area, 305 km from Calcutta, around 5am and killed Nakur Mahato. Nakur, 35, was sleeping outside his hut.
The animal then attacked two other women, who were also sleeping, but they escaped with injuries.
After a 5km march to Jhagartar village, the tusker, which had strayed from his herd, descended on a vegetable field.
Badal Mahato, 30, a small farmer, had come to the field around 7am to pick vegetables.
With Badal was his wife Bela, 25, their two-and-a-half-year-old son Goltu, and his mother Sauri, 55.
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