A 45-year-old man was trampled to death by a tusker at a village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, the police said on Friday.
The incident happened at Kalianala village on Thursday night, a police officer said.
The tusker trampled Puina Dehuri to death while he was sleeping in his house, the police officer said, adding that Puina's two daughters escaped unhurt.
A herd of three wild elephants from Dalma Sanctuary of Jharkhand had crossed over to the Betnoti Range of Baripada Forest Division on Thursday, a forest official said.
The police have registered a case of unnatural death and sent the body to PRM Medical College and Hospital in Baripada for autopsy, the officer-in-charge of Moroda police station, Satyanarayan Bal, said. -- PTI