JAKARTA(AP): A wild elephant trampled to death a14-year-old boy who drove into the animal on a motorbike on Indonesia's Sumatra island, a conservationist said Thursday.
The boy and his 42-year-old father had been riding home at dusk Wednesday when they hit the 3-meter-tall elephant as it crossed the road near their village in Bengalis district, said Rahmad Sidik of the local Conservation and Natural Resources Agency.
The elephant stamped on the teenager's head, killing him instantly and leaving him unrecognizable, while his father escaped with injuries, Sidik said.
It was the latest fatal incident involving elephants living near or in Bukit Barisan National Park.
In May, wild elephants searching for food in a village inside the park trampled a woman and her 3-year-old daughter to death.
Environmentalists say illegal logging and farming are destroying the endangered animals' natural habitats, forcing them to seek new feeding grounds.
About 2,500 elephants are believed to live in the park, about 200 kilometers northwest of the capital, Jakarta
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