CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP)—Two wild elephants died after hitting high-voltage electric wires they snapped while rampaging through a rice field, police said Monday.
Six other elephants from the rampaging herd retreated into a forest after the incident Saturday in Kachua village in Chittagong district, 135 miles southeast of Dhaka, the capital.
The two elephants were struck by the snapped wires from an electric pole they uprooted in the rice field outside the forest, said a local police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Wild elephants have killed at least five people and destroyed crops and thatched huts in the past two months in the region of forests and rugged hills.
