A MASSIVE bull elephant named after terror chief Osama bin Laden has trampled five people to death in India.
The rogue giant went on the deadly rampage in the rural village of Boltar, in the north-eastern state of Assam.
Locals named the beast after the 9/11 mastermind following previous attacks and the repeated destruction of their crops.
The local authorities have now launched a major operation contain the territorial killer, reports the Independent.
Drones and trained elephants are being used to track down the deadly jumbo from a "safe distance."
Villager Rajen Rabha revealed: "In the past Laden has also attacked our villages and killed people and destroyed our paddy fields."
Assam Forest Minister Parimal Shuklabaidya said a special committee including wildlife experts is now deciding how to do deal with the problem elephant.
However, he insisted it would be taking into account the welfare of the elephant as well as the safety of locals.
"We are yet to decide on how to deal with the animal," he told reporters.
"There are suggestions that we should tranquillise the animal and take it to a forest where there is no human habitation nearby."
Laden was last spotted in the Kantaka Reserve on Thursday, the Northeast Now wesbsite reported.
“We have located and identified Laden in the reserve, which is about 15km from Tuesday’s incident site,” a forest officer told the news website.
“The jumbo was visible for once or twice and then it went inside the jungle. Presently the elephant is trying to stay near its own herd taking shelter at the same reserve.”
It was not the first time a killer elephant was named after he mastermind behind the 11 September attacks.
Over the last six years, a five-tonne bull named Osama killed at least 70 people also in the Assam region.
However, the elephant’s huge corpse was found last month in a field near after villagers apparenlty electrocuted it.
Nearly 2,300 people have been trampled in India in the last five years, according to official figures.
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