Elephant Hits Electric Fence in Bangladesh, Dies
Date: 06-Mar-06
Country: BANGLADESH
Other elephants of the herd later destroyed a house and many fruit-bearing trees in the area, in the country's southeastern jungles.
"The elephant was electrocuted as a herd came from the forest in search of food," senior forest official Oboni Kumar Tagore said.
Three elephants have been killed around the same forest in the last two months. Elephants have killed eight people, destroyed homes and crops during the same period.
Bangladesh, one of the world's most densely populated nations, has a forest cover of 17.5 percent.
Bangladesh has nearly 400 elephants, including 100 captive elephants. The number was 1,000 some two decades ago, forest officials said.
