A herd of wild elephants rampaged through a village in southeastern Bangladesh early Thursday, killing five people from the same family, police said. The dead, including two children, were asleep in their thatched hut when the elephants trampled them to death at Bashkhali village in Chittagong district, the area's police chief Zahirul Islam said. Islam said a herd of about 12 elephants had been foraging in a nearby forest when they approached the village, 216 kilometers (136 miles) southeast of national capital, Dhaka, and destroyed more than a dozen huts. Villagers used fire-lit torches to scare the pachyderms away, he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
