Indopia
April 14,2009
Shillong , Apr 14 With just two days to go for polls, the Garo Hills region in Meghalaya was put on alert after a herd of wild elephants went on a rampage in villages searching for food, officials said here today.
" Several houses were destroyed by wild elephants on Sunday in three villages of Dadengiri sub-division of West Garo Hills district. The police opened fire in the air to disperse them," Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer of Tura Lok Sabha seat F R Kharkongor told PTI.
The fresh threat from the elephants come from areas where several booths marked"sensitive"are being prepared for voting on April 16.
Kharkongor said 19 polling stations have been identified by forest officials as sensitive, and five teams, comprising of six forest officials, have been deployed to ensure the tuskers cannot disrupt polls.
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