Rampaging Drunk elephants electrocuted
Pastor Dale Morgan
*Rampaging Drunk elephants electrocuted*
March 14, 2007 01:42pm
Article from: NEWS
FOUR wild elephants drunk on beer were electrocuted when they stumbled
into a power pole and brought it down on top of themselves in northeast
India.
Elephants are known to have a taste for the rice beer brewed by tribes
across northeast India.
A herd of up to 25 elephants rampaged in a remote area in the West Garo
Hills district earlier this week, forcing villagers to run for cover and
leave their freshly brewed beverage behind, BBC News online reported.
After drinking the village dry, the elephants ran into a power pole,
bringing it down.
Their trunks bore the brunt of the shock from the high-tension wire and
four elephants were killed instantly, the website said.
Elephant expert Kushal Konwar Sharma, an Assam lecturer, said elephants
frequently drank rice beer and caused devastation when they became
intoxicated.
Wildlife officials said that in the last two years elephants had killed
at least 180 people in Assam and Meghalaya, and more than 200 elephants
had been killed by angry villagers in the last six years.