BANDA ACEH (Indonesia), Jan 28: Two women were crushed to death when wild elephants attacked villagers in Indonesia’s Aceh province, an official said on Wednesday.

The two women were killed on Tuesday when a pair of elephants trampled the hut in which they were sitting in a field outside the village of Jok in Aceh, a province at the northern end of Sumatra island, local district head Azahari Yacob said.

“One woman was killed at the location and another one passed away on the way to the hospital,” Yacob said.

“This is the first incident in the area. Before this, no elephants had come in and disturbed the community.” The provincial conservation agency sent a team including four tame elephants to chase away the wild elephants, Yacob said, adding that frightened villagers refused to return to the fields.—AFP