Wild elephant attacks have left 120 villagers dead so far this year in Sri Lanka, a local English newspaper reported on Thursday, Xinhua reported.
The Island quoted Jayantha Jayewardene, the managing trustee of the Biodiversity and Elephant Conservation Trust as saying that on average 65 humans and 125 elephants were killed each year due to the human-elephant conflict prevalent in many parts of the country.
He said measures had been taken to reduce human-elephant conflict through educating children in rural schools.
Wildlife officials said the island's elephant population has shrunk to 4,500 from 12,000 a century ago due to poaching, deforestation, drought and starvation.
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