{"id":19343,"date":"2025-06-27T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19343\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:04:09","slug":"elephant-goes-on-rampage-charges-crowd-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19343\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Goes on Rampage, Charges Crowd in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Share<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"window.location = &#039;\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=\" encodeuricomponent=\"\" return=\"\" false=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64, 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\" alt=\"submit to reddit\" border=\"0\" width=\"58\" height=\"20\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n      Copy\u00a0Link&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"o-comments-link u-disqus-count c-article__comments-link\" aria-label=\"Comments\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/watch-elephant-goes-on-a-rampage-charges-into-crowd-during-festival-in-india\/#article-nav\" data-disqus-identifier=\"5638252 https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/?p=5638252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5638260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5638260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-27-at-8-42-14-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5638260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot via Times of India<\/p>\n<p>An elephant was tranquilized and isolated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/india\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a> after charging into a crowd during the annual Ratha Yatra celebrations in India.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/ahmedabad\/rath-yatra-scare-in-ahmedabad-elephant-runs-amok-near-khadia-tranquilised-and-isolated-17-others-continue-on-route\/articleshow\/122105617.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Times of India<\/a> shows one of multiple elephants, painted for the Khadia festival, charging into a crowd and running as people try to calm him. The elephant was the only male taking part in the celebration out of 18 pachyderms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo female elephants were used to gently herd him away from the crowd, in line with our standard safety strategy,\u201d <strong>RK Sahu<\/strong>, superintendent of the Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden, told the Times of India.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was tranquilized and no serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The elephant broke free of his handlers after seemingly becoming spooked and charged into the crowd before running into a railing. The video then shows him running down the street. People rushed to help those trampled by the animal.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration continued with the 17 other elephants after things were brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Ratha Yatra is also known as the Festival of Chariots, where the deities Lord Jagann\u0101tha, Lord Baladeva, and Devi Subhadr\u0101 are taken in separate chariots from the Jagannatha Temple to the Gundic\u0101 Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share &#13; Copy\u00a0Link&#13; \u00a0 Screenshot via Times of India An elephant was tranquilized and isolated in India after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-19343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114755945442641694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}