Published 21:38 IST, August 22nd 2020

Man trampled to death by wild elephants in Jharkhand

A 26-year-old man was trampled to death by wild elephants in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district on Saturday, making it the third such incident in the area in the last one week, a senior forest official said.

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A 26-year-old man was trampled to death by wild elephants in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district on Saturday, making it third such incident in area in last one week, a senior forest official said.

incident took place in Gola block on Saturday morning, he said.

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Also, two persons, including a member of a Forest Department team deployed to push elephants back to jungle, were critically injured after being attacked by pachyderms, Ramgarh Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Vijay Shankar Dubey said.

operation was n called off and ar team has been sent from Bokaro to push elephants back to forest, he said.

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21:38 IST, August 22nd 2020