LAKHIMPUR KHERI, Dec. 9 -- A 45-year-old farmer was killed by a herd of wild elephants at Lakhimpur Kheri district's Gulra village in Majhgain forest range of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) in Uttar Pradesh late on Monday night, said forest officials.

His two fellow villagers somehow managed to escape the wrath of the wild tuskers. The mutilated body of the deceased identified as Ram Bahadur was recovered on Tuesday morning from the sugarcane fields.

As per reports, Ram Bahadur, along with two other farmers Lalta and Sushil, was keeping vigil over their crops following the movements of wild elephants near the sugarcane field of Gulra village when a herd of about a dozen elephants entered the field and started eating the crop.

Sighting the ...