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 By The Associated Press (6/1/02 – KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia)  
 An Indonesian worker was trampled to death by five elephants at a Malaysian oil palm plantation on Saturday, police said. 
 One of the elephants used its trunk to drag Sharifuddin Ghani, 23, from his home before the herd trampled him at the remote plantation in Temerloh, about 55 miles east of the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Sharifuddin, who worked at the plantation, died soon after at a hospital. The spokesman said the elephants also tried to attack Sharifuddin’s neighbors, but they escaped. The animals ran into the nearby jungle.  
 Rubber and palm oil plantations have replaced large tracts of forests over the past century in Malaysia, forcing animals such as elephants and tigers out of their natural home.