By IANS,
Kolkata: Three women were crushed to death and four others, including two children, were injured by an elephant that went berserk in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district Thursday, a forest department official said.
“Three women were killed and four, including two children, were seriously injured when a berserk elephant entered a village near Ambari forest area in the district,” a forest official said.
“All four villagers were admitted to a nearby district hospital with critical injuries,” he said.
According to sources, the agitated villagers staged an angry protest when forest department official and police arrived after the incident, alleging inaction on the part of government machinery.
Later, the elephant was chased back into forest with the intervention of the forest officials.