Bokaro, Feb. 5 -- Three members of a family were crushed to death and one person was seriously injured after a herd of elephants entered a village in Bokaro district of Jharkhand in the early hours of Thursday.
The incident took place around 3 am in Barki Punnu village, located amid dense forests under the Mahua Tand police station area of Gomia block. According to officials, a herd of elephants entered the village in search of food and stormed into the courtyard of a house belonging to Gangwa Karmali.
Bokaro District Forest Officer Sandeep Sinde said Karmali tried to flee after noticing the elephants but was caught and crushed to death. Hearing his screams, his wife Kamli Devi rushed out of the house and attempted to escape, but an eleph...