Monday, December 08, 2008

Aceh Authorities Urged To Deal With Elephants Running Amok

Berita Sore
27 November 2008


Banda Aceh ( Berita ) : Local residents of Cot Pangee village have urged authorities in Aceh Jaya District to deal with elephants which have run amok and killed one villager.
“I notice that despite a casualty and damages in hectares of crops, there is no effort to solve the elephant problem in Cot Pangee village,” Saudi M Daud, an inhabitant of Aceh Jaya, on Thursday.
Since November 25, 2008, a herd of elephants have run amok in Cot Pangee village, around 130 km west of Banda Aceh. The herd killed a local resident identified as Muhammad Wali (30), destroyed one house, and rampaged through hectares of farmland and plantations doing serious damage to crops.

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