Rampaging wild elephants have killed two more people and injured 1O at Rangajhiri village in southeastern Bangladesh, forest officials said today.
A herd of elephants entered the village last night and trampled the people while destroying about 100 straw huts.
At least 500 people were made homeless, and some standing crops and trees were also destroyed as a herd of 20 elephants stormed Rangajhiri village in Chittagong Hill Tracts, said a forest official at Lama, 350 km (219 miles) from Dhaka.
Last week, at least two people were killed and 15 injured when elephants attacked a village in nearby Cox's Bazar district.
Forest officials said the elephants often came out of the jungle in search of food or when disturbed by illegal loggers.
Wild elephants have so far killed 37 people this year in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar, police said.