1.   Elephants also destroy crops, angering farmers.

2.   Planters grumbled when the elephants destroyed their crops, but nothing was done.

3.   But Kiiru said in areas where elephants often destroy crops and encroach on residential area, villagers are given leeway to protect their property or themselves.

4.   Namibian President Sam Nujoma told Hashimoto at a meeting Monday that elephants are destroying forests and threatening homes in the region, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.

5.   The elephants also destroyed an unspecified number of shops and homes, uprooted trees and damaged crops, he said.

6.   The seven elephants destroyed a house and several farms this week in a village in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam, then chased residents.

7.   Elephants regularly destroy crops and buildings and kill or injure people in Sumatra.

8.   Farmers complain the elephants regularly destroy their crops, and about a dozen people are killed each year trying to protect their harvests.

9.   The elephants destroyed houses and crops and trampled to death two villagers.

10.   The other victims were Shambhu Thapa and his wife Alubari who were asleep when the elephants destroyed their house, which collapsed on them.