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By APD writer Chen Jiabao
BANGKOK, Sep 17 (APD) -- A herb of wild elephants kept disturbing a village in northeastern Thailand for a week, bringing sleepless nights for villagers, local media Sunday reported.
Fields and crops of a village in Nakhorn Rachasima Province have been destroyed by five elephants. Locals said the herb spends the day time in dense forests and venture out to their fields at night, forcing the villagers to take turns to watch out the move of the animals nightly.
Soldiers have been dispatched to the area to help the villagers keep the rampaging herb from intruding into the hamlet.
As night falls, the noise of the herb approached the village, putting the soldiers and villagers full on alert. They lighted firecrackers to keep the elephants away from local houses. But when the fire went out, the herb bursted into the area again, making the panic villagers hide themselves in the house. The trouble went quiet till early morning on Sunday, according to Daily News.
Officials are busy trying to keep the herb from entering the villages. No injured has been reported so far.
Elephant attacks are common in Thailand, a country with rich forests where the population of elephants is more than 2,700.
In May, a woman was kicked and killed by wild elephants while she was tapping rubber tress in a plantation in Chachoengsao, a province east to Bangkok in south-central Thailand.
Wild elephants destroying crops and ferociously chasing villagers are reported every year.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
