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Elephants kill 200 in Bangladesh in a decade: study DHAKA (AFP) Dec 25, 2005 At least 200 people have been killed by elephants since 1996 due to human encroachment on the habitats of wild Asian pachyderms in densely populated Bangladesh, according to a survey released Sunday. Of these, around 51 died in the northern hill areas of Mymensingh while most of the others were killed in the southeastern forest areas of the Chittagong hill tracts, state-run BSS news agency said, quoting the government survey. According to the survey, there are about 800 elephants, including 350 wild ones, left in the country. Bangladesh, with a population of 140 million, is the world's most densely populated country, with about 1,000 people per square kilometre. All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
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