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Elephants devastate crops, homes in Assam's Palasbari, Rani areas.

Villagers live in fear as elephant incidents increase.

Locals criticize inadequate response from authorities.

Rampaging herds of wild elephants, straying from the adjoining Meghalaya forest belt in search of food, have unleashed widespread destruction across the Palasbari and Rani areas, intensifying human–elephant conflict and leaving local communities in a state of fear and distress.

According to residents, elephants moving in groups have repeatedly entered agricultural fields and human settlements, flattening hundreds of bighas of standing paddy crops, uprooting trees, breaking boundary walls and fences, and damaging houses. Stored food grains and harvested paddy have also been destroyed, dealing a

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