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6 wild elephants electrocuted in India after drinking beer
| By: Bill Curtis 4:59 PM Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Viewed 260 times. Rating: 0 |
By WASBIR HUSSAIN....GAUHATI, India (AP) - Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India’s remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday. Nearly 40 elephants came to a village on Friday looking for food. Some found beer, which farmers ferment and keep in plastic and tin drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official. They got drunk, uprooted a utility pole carrying power lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, Kumar said. “There would have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away,” said Dipu Mark, a local conservationist. The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities in India’s northeast. Four wild elephants died in similar circumstances in the region three years ago.
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