Dehradun, July 16 -- Garhwal Post Bureau
Dehradun, 14 Jul: Several elephants unexpectedly entered the Navada residential colony here late last night, creating chaos in the heart of the city where such wild encounters are virtually unheard of. The incident reportedly occurred at around 2 a.m. today, when two adult elephants, accompanied by calves, breached the colony boundaries and launched a spree of destruction, damaging parked vehicles and attempting to enter residences by tearing down boundary walls and smashing doors.
It would be pertinent to remind here that there has been alarming encroachment of wildlife into urban habitations in Uttarakhand in general and in an around Dehradun, Rishikesh and Haridwar and parts of Kumaon, where tig...