Independent Online
April 18 2007
Cox's Bazar - Wild elephants straying into a village trampled two nine-year-old children to death in southeastern Bangladesh on Wednesday, police and forestry officials said.
The victims, a boy and a girl, failed to escape when a herd of elephants swooped on their village near a forest at Ramu, 430km southeast of the capital Dhaka.
The elephants also destroyed five houses, uprooted trees and demolished standing crops.
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