friday, october 22, 1999
page 10 - 3rd article down from the top
Drunken elephants kill 4
Wild elephants broke into a cluster of thatched huts, guzzled rice beer fermenting in casks and then tore the Village apart in a drunken rampage, trampling four people to death and injuring six, a wildlife official said yesterday.
The herd of 15 elephants descended Wednesday on the village of Prajapatibosti, 180 miles east of Gauhati, state capital of northeastern Assam, elephant expert Kushal Konwar Sharma said.
The elephants -broke. into the thatched -huts with their trunks and then began drinking rice beer from casks, Sharma said in a telephone interview from Golaghat.
"After drinking the beer the elephant herd became intoxicated and went on a rampage, trampiing to death four members of a family " he said. The animals trampled rice paddies and more huts before leaving yesterday.
a software engineer named siva ganesh from the southern indian state of tamil nadu told me elephants can't run down hill.
so if an elephant ever chases you run downhill.