One killed by rhino in Jorhat

JORHAT: One person was killed by a rhino that strayed from Kaziranga national park today in Upper Assam's Jorhat district.

A group of about five rhinos had come out of Kaziranga park in neighbouring Golaghat district and two of them moved along the riverine areas towards Asia's largest river island Majuli in Jorhat district, forest sources said.

The two animals were being chased away, when one of them trampled a man to death, the sources said.

The rhinos come out to consume sugarcane juice and local rice beer ���laopani' in the nearby areas where the villagers grow sugarcane and brew the alcoholic beverage, the sources said.

Two persons were killed and eight others injured by rhinos last year.