According to reports, there are somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 wild elephants on the entire planet, and approximately 50% of them live in India.
Hence, it is not entirely uncommon to learn of a news story where one of the world’s largest land animals trampled a vehicle, charged at people, or disrupted a social outing. Although most of India’s elephant population primarily resides in the states of Karnataka, Assam, and Kerala, a group of shoppers in the city of Arambagh (located in the state of West Bengal) recently experienced an up-close-and-personal encounter with an adult Indian elephant as it rampaged its way up the sidewalk of a local shopping area. The on-camera incident depicts bystanders running for cover before the elephant slams into a few vehicles and corners a group of scared shoppers in the entranceway of a business. Following the wreckage, authorities tranquilized the elephant before relocating it to North Bengal.