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Drinking problem leads to elephants’ demise - BostonHerald.com: "GAUHATI, India - It was wild pachyderm fun until it went tragically wrong.
Six wild elephants got into the rice beer, got dung-faced, went berserk and were electrocuted when it all got out of control in a remote Indian village Friday, a wildlife official said yesterday.
Nearly 40 elephants had moved into the village looking for food. Some found the home-brewed beer, which farmers ferment in plastic and tin drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official.
The blotto jumbos uprooted a utility pole carrying power lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, Kumar said."
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