Thanh Nien News
June 27, 2008
A herd of about 10 rampaging wild elephants have destroyed a newly-planted rubber tree plantation and threatened the lives of local people in Central Highland’s Gia Lai Province.
The elephants devastated crops near the forest edge at Chu Se District in Gia Lai Province and Ea Hleo District in Dak Lak Province over the past three days.
“We were on our way from the rubber plantation to the camp when a group of about ten elephants approached,” a worker from Phuc Cuong Company’s rubber forest in Chu Se District said.
“The elephants were very fierce and destroyed all the trees in their way.
We had to run for our lives after one of them saw us and roared,” he said.
Reports said the elephants had also terrorized others who went into the forest
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