India, Feb. 13 -- Six people, including four members of a family, were killed after a herd of elephants stormed into Ango Gondwar village under Churchu block of Hazaribagh district in the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, officials said.

"The incident occurred around 2am in the Ango Gondwar Bhuiyan Toli village. The victims included two minor children, aged one-and-a-half and four years. One child died while undergoing treatment at the Sheikh Bhikhari Medical College and Hospital," a district administration official said.

According to initial reports, a herd of five elephants entered the village and first attacked a 60-year-old man. When other family members rushed out to help, they were surrounded and trampled to death, officia...