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Subscribe to RSSSoldiers in Nepal hunted for a wild elephant on Monday after it strayed into villages in the southern part of the Himalayan nation and killed four people over three months, officials said.
On Saturday, the elephant walked into a thatched house in Gardi village adjoining Chitwan National Park, 50 miles south of Kathmandu, pulled an elderly couple from bed and trampled them to death, said Shiva Ram Gelal, assistant district administrator from Bharatpur, the nearest city.
The same animal killed two other villagers within the last three months, park officials said.
"We have given orders to the army to shoot the elephant that has gone mad," Gelal told Reuters. "Soldiers are now searching for it."
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Nepal has about 300 elephants, including more than 100 domesticated ones which are used by hotels and national parks to take tourists on jungle rides to watch wild animals like one-horned Asian rhinoceroses and Bengal tigers.
Elephants are protected by law and anyone convicted for killing one faces up to 15 years in jail.
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However, Gelal said the Local Administration Act, a Nepali law, allowed authorities to kill the animal if it was responsible for the loss of human life.
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It is truly sad when nature has suffered so much at man's hands. Like the elephants, lions and crocodiles in Africa which attack people. Considering how many have been slaughtered for their hides, or ivory.When it strikes back, obviously people aren't going to be happy.This is such a sad case.
Kinda ironc....the hunters have become the hunted....wish all animals would do this....
I don't hunt, and I have no wish to gratuitously harm any animal, particularly one as majestic as an elephant. But I've no desire to be demoted on nature's food chain or be trampled, and otherwise attacked by a wild animal.
I hope they find this elephant, and shoot it.
If they would do as you say, it's surely a death sentence for them, as in this case. The odds are always on the side of humans. The animals never win.
Where is manly man Ted "the Diaper" Nugent when you need him. Oh wait this animal can fight back and is actually dangerous so I guess Ted wouldn't be seen unless they can secure it to a tree somehow, for that manly shot.
H8TParty
Yeah........ I used to be a Nugent fan. Not now.
So HSTPARTY,, what bar did you find your flip "lady" in?? LMAO
I'm sorry whuck it was the one I turned your mommy down in did she get mad and cry. I've used the expression Bagger before but your mommy wow she really is one. LOL! You can't get under my skin whuck, I don't cower like Republicans do.
the elephant is only doing what it needs to do to survive. these and most animals suffer greatly from human using, killing, abusing and murdering them. i hope they never find the elephant.
How is pulling two people from bed and trampling them to death "doing what it needs to do to survive"? You are quite obviously a seriously neurotic individual, and need to seek professional help. For you to take such apparent joy from the deaths of innocent people pretty much makes you a sociopath.
Ban elephants!
Run, Dumbo... run!
See, another Republican responsible for killing the poor (you know, Repubs-elephants, joke, funny, etc.)
Isn't it a little early for the weekly animal rights sob story?
"elderly couple from bed and trampled them to death"
Squish!
WTF is you point?
So, why is it that we need to protect the elephants? It seems they can protect themselves fairly well.
Aaaaccckkk! The fact is that they cannot protect themselves against bullets at all. Do you not read or listen to what goes on in Africa? Elephants are being slaughtered at a tremendous rate for the demands of the Chinese government for their ivory. Read this article. It's deplorable, and the slaughter is virtually impossible to stop. Elephants are on the verge of becoming extinct.
Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/world/africa/africas-elephants-are-being-slaughtered-in-poaching-frenzy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0