Elephant goes berserk in Varanasi

                                                            By Girish Kumar Dubey

Varanasi, Oct 27: An elephant belonging to the royal family of Banaras went berserk, injuring dozens of people and damaging several makeshift shops at Ramnagar here, police said today.

The 45-year-old pachyderm, Bhola, went berserk last evening and created a ruckus by damaging makeshift shops and vehicles in the city, they said.

The elephant has been serving the royal family of Banaras (Kashi Naresh) for the last several years.

Mahout Gafur Khan was also injured while trying to pacify the elephant, they said, adding the elephant could be controlled only after two hours. (ANI)

 

Submitted on Oct 28 2007