Monday, April 28, 2008
Wild elephants kill 2 children in Bangladesh, possible virus kills 2 elephants in Kerala
Two children were trampled to death and a man maimed as straying wild elephants destroyed two villages over the last 24 hours in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said on Monday.
A girl was killed and six bamboo houses flattened as elephants ravaged a village near Cox's Bazar district town, 400 km (250 miles) from the capital Dhaka on Monday.
A boy was killed and a man seriously injured when wild elephants strayed into another village in the same district on Sunday. Five houses were levelled by the rampaging elephants.
Recalling last week's elephant incident in Kerala, India,
A suspected case of viral disease has resulted in the death of two wild elephants in the Wayanad district in Kerala in the last one month.
... "A nine-month-old calf was found in the forest in a very weak condition Friday. The elephant herd was seen trying to help the calf stand upright. Though we tried to help the calf, the herd did not allow us to approach. The next day the calf died," forest range officer T. Pradeep said.
According to officials, elephants get stressed and become susceptible to diseases during summer when water and fodder are in short supply. Veterinary experts who examined the carcasses suspect that the deaths were caused by viral infection.
// posted by Erik @ 4/28/2008 11:55:00 PM
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