Elephant kills man in Uttarakhand forests

Dehradun, Feb 8 (IANS) A 27-year-old man was killed by a wild elephant when he was attempting to film the animal on his mobile phone, an official of the forest department said on Thursday.

The incident took place at around 2 p.m. in the Kaluwala forest area on the outskirts of the state capital.

Two men from Aheermandi in the city went on a bike to the jungles and on spotting the pachyderm went very close and started filming it with his mobile.

The elephant apparently ran amok and killed Vivek Kumar by throwing him on the ground, the other man Pankaj Bhandari told police.

Locals drove away the elephant and rushed the injured man to the Himalayan hospital in Jolly Grant where doctors declared him brought dead.

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