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GAUHATI, INDIA — Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India’s remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
Nearly 40 elephants came to a village Friday looking for food. Some found beer, which farmers ferment and keep in drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official. They got drunk, uprooted a utility pole with power lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat.
“There would have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away,” said a local conservationist.
The Associated Press
