Six binge drinking elephants were electrocuted when they went berserk after quaffing rice beer.
The Asiatic wild elephants met their maker after picking a fight with an electric pole in north eastern India.
Drunk elephant looking worse for wear!
A 40-strong herd uprooted the electric pole after getting squiffy on Friday
in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 240 kilometers (150 miles) west of
Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife
official.
"There would have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away," said Dipu Mark, a local conservationist.
The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities in India's northeast.
Four wild elephants died similarly in the region three years ago.
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