Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Wild elephants kill farmer, destroy houses on Indonesia's Sumatra island

Wild elephants kill farmer, destroy houses on Indonesia's Sumatra island
The Associated Press
October 31, 2006

PEKANBARU, Indonesia Wild rampaging elephants trampled a farmer to death and destroyed several houses in a village on Indonesia's Sumatra island, witnesses said Tuesday.

The people of Lubuk Embut, a village on Riau province 900 kilometers (600 miles) northwest of the capital Jakarta, have been terrorized over the last few days by a herd of around 20 starving elephants in search of food, said Jayok, a village chief who goes by a single name.

"We cannot sleep at night and are scared in the day by the sound of trumpeting elephants," he said.

The victim, whose body was discovered on Thursday, died near a protected forest that is home to about 180 to 250 elephants, he said.

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