'Mourning' elephants ransack village

Rampaging wild elephants destroyed huts and sent villagers fleeing after one of their herd was killed by poachers in southeastern Bangladesh, a conservation official said today.

Poachers shot dead a young male elephant and cut off its tusks on Thursday in the forested hills of Cox’s Bazar district, 300 kilometres southeast of the capital Dhaka, said forest ranger Shyamol Mitra