NEW DELHI, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Two more people were trampled to death and a forest department employee critically injured in the fresh elephant attack in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, officials said Saturday.
The attacks took place on Friday in the West Singhbhum district, about 160 km south of Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand.
"The victims were identified as a 40-year-old man and a small child," an official said.
Forest department officials said the elephant moves during the night and carries out attacks in the dark. Thereafter, it hides in the dense forests during the daytime.
Wildlife experts say mass urbanization, denudation of forests, encroachment of forestland, and vanishing buffer zones in the forests are some of the reasons that push wild animals into residential areas. ■
