Nearly Two Dozen People K*lled By Elephant In Wild Rampage

At least 22 people died and 15 others sustained injuries after a raging elephant caused destruction through several towns in eastern India.

Locals reportedly “climbed trees” and “slept on rooftops” to avoid the elephant in its 10-day rampage, the New York Post noted.

The chaos began on New Year’s Day when the elephant killed a 35-year-old man in the village of Bandijhari in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district.

Rogue elephant kills nearly two dozen people in 10-day rampage through eastern India https://t.co/Uze1UZf82V pic.twitter.com/LuCqE48k9s

— New York Post (@nypost) January 20, 2026

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Four days later, the animal killed five members of the same family in the nearby town of Sowan. The next day, it killed five more people in Babaria, including