The Times of India
11 Jul 2008
DHAKA: A herd of wild elephants on Friday trampled to death four members of a family in remote southeastern hills prompting over 100 families in the area to flee for safety, officials said.
Four members of a farmer family, including two minors, were killed while asleep at their thatched house when a herd of around eight elephants strayed into their remote village at Lama area of Bandarban hill district.
The herd also levelled four households and several rural shops. More than hundred families in the neighbourhood fled their homes as the elephants had killed another person at the same village just a week ago, a police official said.
A local reporter said he had reported 18 deaths from elephant attacks in the past two months in Lama area as wild elephants come down to villages in search of food, targeting harvested heaps of paddy and banana gardens.
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