India, May 4 -- Two persons were killed in two incidents of elephant attacks within a span of 24 hours near Assam's Numaligarh town, forest officials said on Sunday.

The first incident was reported on Saturday where a local resident named Binod Majhi was killed by a herd of wild elephants, while the second incident happened on Sunday morning where a tea garden guard named Debcharan Nuniya died.

Binod Majhi was a farmer and, according to the locals, he was returning home from his agriculture field when he suddenly encountered a herd of elephants.

The forest officials of Golaghat district said that they received the information from locals and a team reached the spot where they found the trampled body of Majhi.

"It was sent to a governm...