Three members of a family trampled to death by elephants

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Press Trust of India Goalpara
Last Updated : Sep 06 2016 | 7:57 PM IST
Three members of a family, including a child, were trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants in lower Assam's Goalpara district in the early hours today.
The marauding herd also destroyed their thatched hut, police said.
The herd of wild tuskers came out of the forest and trampled to death a young couple and their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter while they were asleep, police added.

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First Published: Sep 06 2016 | 7:57 PM IST

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