GAUHATI, India — About 100 wild elephants have converged on a river island in northeast India, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents, officials said Saturday.
Thousands of villagers were using firecrackers and bonfires to scare away the rampaging animals.
"Dozens of houses have been destroyed in the past three days by adult elephants entering human settlements to look for their wandering calves," said the local magistrate, L.S. Changsan.
Up to 50 families have moved to a local school being used as a refugee camp, Changsan said. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Costume Craze
Thousands of villagers were using firecrackers and bonfires to scare away the rampaging animals.
"Dozens of houses have been destroyed in the past three days by adult elephants entering human settlements to look for their wandering calves," said the local magistrate, L.S. Changsan.
Up to 50 families have moved to a local school being used as a refugee camp, Changsan said. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Costume Craze
