A man was killed by a wild elephant in Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh, the police said on Friday.
The incident happened on Thursday evening when the elephant came out of Jaithari forest range and entered the fields at Gobri village. When the villagers tried to chase the elephant away, the animal trampled Gyanchand Gaur, 50, to death.
Jitendra Singh Panwar, Superintendent of Police, Anuppur district, told The Hindu, “We recovered the body late in the night and handed it over to the family.”