[Straits Times] WILD elephants trampled an Indonesian farmer on death on Friday, an official said.A herd of elephants crushed the 30-year-old man as he worked in his field in Alue Keujereun village, Aceh province, district chief Mohammed Hasbi said.
'A herd of eight elephants appeared out of the blue. He panicked and tried to flee with his friend but he fell and one of the elephants crushed him,' he said.
Human-animal conflicts are a rising problem as people encroach on wildlife habitats in Indonesia, an archipelago with some of the world's largest remaining tropical forests.
There are up to 3,350 Sumatran elephants remaining in the wild, according to the environmental group WWF.