2 in India Trampled to Death by Elephants
United Press International
GAUHATI, India —
A herd of elephants trampled two telephone company employees to death, bringing to 16 the number of people killed by the rampaging animals in northeastern Assam state since September, a forestry official said Thursday.
He said the laborers were asleep Tuesday night when a herd of hungry elephants rampaged through their campsite in the Cinmara tea plantation near Jorhat, 1,000 miles east of New Delhi.
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