A
wild elephant Thursday trampled to death two people, including a child,
as it rampaged through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, officials
said.
The
incident occurred at the massive Kutupalong camp in the southeastern
border district of Cox's Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya
have taken refuge after fleeing what UN officials have called ethnic
cleansing in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
"The
wild elephant trampled a Rohingya child to death... and then trampled
another Bangladeshi man to death when it was chased by Rohingya refugees
and local villagers," Ali Kabir, the district forest department chief,
told AFP.
Kabir
said at least another five people were injured as the elephant rampaged
through flimsy tarpaulin-and-bamboo huts, which were built on forest
land after the influx of refugees began nearly six months ago.
Source: Yahoo News
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