NEW DELHI: A team of 100 forest and wildlife officers is on the hunt for a wild elephant that has killed at least 20 people in a days-long rampage in eastern India, officials said on Wednesday. The elephant attacks have been taking place since early January in the Chaibasa and Kolhan forest areas of West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand state, which is also home to the Singhbhum Elephant Reserve. “Twenty people have lost their lives,” Aditya Narayan, divisional forest officer, Chaibasa, told Arab News. “This is unusual ...

The deaths occurred between 1 and 9 January in a part of one of Asia's largest Sal forests.

Eastern region on high alert as authorities try to track animal tearing through villages in Jharkand after apparently becoming separated from herd