Gumla: A man from UP, identified as Saukin Ansari, was killed by a herd of wild elephants in an area under Kuru block in Lohardaga on Thursday night. Ansari, in his late 40s and a resident of Baseda in Muzaffarnagar district, had come to Lohardaga four days ago to take his family back from his father-in-law 's house in Hamid Nagar. tnn
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