This elephant spent the night in a well

Ranchi: How do you fit an elephant into a well?

This one, in the Ranchi district, just fell right in. Villagers heard plaintive cries from an abandoned well and rushed there to find the elephant stuck inside.

He was part of a herd that strayed into the Silli village from the jungles nearby.

For 12 hours, villagers and officials from the Forest Department worked to help him. The officials had to break the walls of the well to make way for the elephant to walk out of there. He sustained some injuries during the rescue operations, but not major ones.

The elephant was released into the jungles, where he will hopefully stick with his clan.