Elephant charges villagers who threw stones at it in Assam's Golaghat district

A video of a wild elephant chasing villagers in the Numaligarh area of Assam's Golaghat district has surfaced. The incident is said to have taken place on October 31. The video is going viral on social media.

In the video, some villagers are seen throwing stones at the elephant to drive it away. As soon as the stone-pelting began, the elephant became enraged and charged at them.

Seeing the elephant coming towards them, the villagers panicked and ran to save their lives. The same elephant also damaged a man's motorcycle in the area. Fortunately, no one was killed in the incident.

The video shows an attempt to drive an elephant out of a field. The incident is said to have occurred near the villages of Dhalaguri and Miripathar in the Morangi area. Human settlements lie in this part, and elephants move through it frequently.

According to the information available, the villagers threw stones to drive the elephant away, and it lunged at them. The frightened villagers scattered to save themselves. No one has been seriously injured, the information given says.

According to information from villages in the area, an enraged elephant, while chasing a man, badly damaged his motorcycle. No lives were lost.

The incident shows how great a danger can arise when elephants enter human settlements. On October 31, an attempt to drive an elephant away in Golaghat district backfired: villagers threw stones, the elephant ran at them, people fled for their lives and a motorcycle was wrecked, but no one was seriously hurt.