IPOH: The hot weather that has dried up leaves and tree barks may have caused 12 rogue elephants to leave the Piah Forest reserve to feed in the nearby oil palm plantation and fruit orchards in Kampung Lasah in Sungai Siput, about 40km from here.
State Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) director Jasmi Abdul said the elephants could have encroached into the village to forage for food.
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