Friday, May 08, 2009

Elephants trample five to death in Dhubri district

The Telegraph
April 24, 2009
Dhubri, April 24: A woman and her four minor children were trampled to death by two rogue elephants in Assam’s Dhubri district, along the state’s boundary with Meghalaya, last night.

It was sometime between 11pm and 1.30am and Samsul Hoque and his family members were fast asleep at Bansali village under Mancachar police station when a commotion in the neighbourhood woke them up.

“We were fast asleep when we heard the hue and cry of the villagers. But who knew that they (the villagers) were alerting us to wake up and run? After a few moments we felt a tremor. But before we could realise anything, the rogue elephants uprooted our thatched house and trampled my family members,” Hoque told this correspondent from Mancachar police station over phone.

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