Hunters ordered to kill rogue elephant

Authorities in India’s remote north-east have given orders to hunt down and kill a rogue elephant blamed for 14 deaths that has been nicknamed Laden by fearful villagers, after the al-Qaida leader.

“We have ordered a hunter to shoot and kill the 10-feet tall tuskless bull that is believed to have killed up to 14 people in the past two years,” Chandan Bora, a wildlife ranger, said by telephone from Bishwanath Chariali, 150 miles north of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state.