Indian police use elephants to evict illegal settlers
by Michael Safi and agencies from on (#39411)
Animals were used in protected forest area in Assam, where authorities want to demolish about 1,000 bamboo and tin huts
Indian police have taken the unusual step of using elephants in an attempt to evict hundreds of people living illegally in a protected forest area in the country's remote north-east.
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