A 70-year-old man in Chhattisgarh was trampled to death by a rampaging wild elephant after he ignored the appeals of villagers and tried to touch the animal's feet to seek its blessings, forest officials said on Thursday.
The incident took place late on Wednesday in the forested village of Balpur, about 150 km from here.
"The wild elephant probably sneaked into the village from neighbouring Orissa and created terror in the Sarsiwa forested area, which includes Balpur. People ran into their houses to avoid the rampaging jumbo but Bhakla Satnami went near it," Anil Soni, divisional forest officer, Raipur, said.
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