The Telegraph
June 24, 2008
Midnapore, June 23: Elephants, possibly displaced by the floods and left starving, are circling relief camps in West Midnapore, drawn by the smell of molasses.
Malati Majhi, who had been having a disturbed sleep at the thought of the crumbling home that she left behind, woke up with a start on Thursday night and saw in the feeble light of a kerosene lamp the trunk of an elephant. It was sniffing around for something through a smashed window of the school building.
“Then I saw a huge dark shape outside. It was an illusion I thought. But then a chill ran down my spine,” she said.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Malati, 38, a widow, had waded 200m through waist-deep water with her two sons to the school at Deulbar village.
On Thursday night, Malati shook off her exhaustion and screamed with all her might. About 450 flood victims woke up and realised a herd of four had surrounded the school and were trying to make their way in.
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